Every night, actors Ang�lique Clairand and C�cile Bournay support writers and unveil selected extracts.

Background

Ang�lique Clairand has trained with the CNR in Nantes, the Ecole de la Com�die in Saint-�tienne and the Ecole des Ma�tres. In 2000, she co-founded Compagnie des Lumas with Eric Mass�, for which she performed and helped directing Marivaux�s L��le aux esclaves, Concertina (inspired by Fragmentation d�un lieu commun by Jane Sauti�re and Le Parloir de mes songes by Michel X), Sophie Lannefranque�s Encouragement(s), and Jean Genet�s Les Bonnes - Intimit� & Reconstitution. She has also directed, together with Eric Mass�, Retour au fumier, and Les Moinous (a trilogy inspired by the work of Raymond Federman). She has performed in plays directed by other people, such as Stanislas Nordey, Roland Fichet, Jean-Claude Berrutti, Fr�d�ric Fisbach, Robert Cantarella, Richard Brunel, Annie Lucas, Karelle Prugneau, etc. More recently, she has presented La b�te � deux dos ou le coaching amoureux by Yannick Jaulin as part of the �a Tchatche WeekEnd 08, and Le pansage de la langue.

A student at the drama school Com�die de Saint-�tienne (1999-2002), C�cile Bournay then worked as one of its in-house actors from 2002 to 2003. She worked among others with Pierre Maillet, Jean-Claude Berutti, Christian Schiaretti, Marcial di Fonzo Bo, �ric Mass�, Olivier Rey, Johanny Bert, Zouzou Leyens and Giorgio Barberio Corsetti. At her arrival in Lyon, she was discovered by Michel Raskine, who cast her in 2006 in Shakespeare�s play Pericles for the Festival des Nuits de Fourvi�re, then in Sartre�s Huis-Clos (No Exit). Since 2007, she has worked in partnership with Ang�lique Clairand, who she met at the Com�die de Saint-�tienne, on projects such as La b�te � deux dos ou le coaching amoureux and Le pansage de la langue in 2008.