Bunker
Marion Siéfert and Matthieu Bareyre
From his luxury bunker, a petrochemical CEO augmented by neuro-implants runs his empire. His daughter Ami has stopped speaking. Marion Siéfert and filmmaker Matthieu Bareyre have written together a speculative fiction that scrutinizes our time: technological domination, the excess of the powerful, the silent resistance of the vulnerable. Bunker rediscovers what lies at the heart of the poem: the clash between speech and silence, and the stubborn beauty of a wellchosen gesture.
Biographie(s)
Marion Siéfert, Matthieu Bareyre
As a writer, director, and performer, Marion Siéfert creates works at the intersection of theater, writing, and digital media. Her notable works include Le Grand Sommeil (2018), DU SALE ! (2019), jeanne_dark (2020), and Daddy (2023). Her shows, presented in France and internationally, explore contemporary cultures and new forms of representation, blending fiction, documentary, and performance.
Writer, director, and editor, Matthieu Bareyre creates documentary work focused on contemporary narratives. Following Nocturnes, which won an award at the Cinéma du réel festival in 2015, he directed L’Époque, which received the Best Debut Film Award from the French Critics’ Union. In 2022, Le Journal d’une femme nwar premiered on stage before airing on Arte. His latest feature film, 95 Stories, will be presented at film festivals in 2026.
Distribution
Written by Matthieu Bareyre and Marion Siéfert - Directed by Marion Siéfert with Janice Bieleu, Monica Budde, Lorenzo Lefebvre, and Charles-Henri Wolff - Dramaturgy by Matthieu Bareyre - Set design concept and execution by Nadia Lauro - Sound by Patrick Jammes - Lighting by Manon Lauriol - Costumes by Chloé Courcelle - Assistant Director: Noa Landon - Stage Manager: Chloé Bouju - Stage and Props Manager: Charlotte Arnaud - Fencing Coach (butterfly knives): Didier Beddar - Choreography for “The Three Little Pigs”: Patric Kuo - Acting coaching: Janice Bieleu and Ariane Schrack - Co-creation of set elements: Marie Maresca and Charlotte Wallet (animals and props), Comédie de Genève (Carpentry and lighting equipment) - Production coordination: Anne Pollock - International development and touring: Emmanuelle Ossena - Communications: Justine Cazin - Production: Ziferte Productions
Action(s) spécifique(s)
- At Bunker, a special gathering with journalists from *Le Papotin*, the newspaper created by and for people with autism (open only to *Le Papotin* journalists).
- Students from the Paris-Val de Seine School of Architecture are invited to a scenographic dialogue with Marion Siéfert and Nadia Lauro. This exchange will give rise to projects conceived by the students, which will be developed and tested on the theater’s stages.
Production
Premiere on July 19 at the FabricA during the Avignon Festival
Produced by Ziferte Productions
With support from the Hermès Corporate Foundation
Co-production
Comédie de Genève, T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers—National Drama Center, Points Communs—New National Stage of Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise, Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Avignon Festival, Bonlieu National Stage in Annecy, Châteauvallon - Liberté - National Stage, Théâtre Garonne - European Stage in Toulouse, Le Parvis National Stage in Tarbes - Pyrénées, Albi-Tarn National Theater, TSQY - National Theater
Residencies at T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers - National Drama Center, Points Communs - National Theater of Cergy-Pontoise, Comédie de Genève, Châteauvallon Liberté—National Theater of Toulon, Houdremont—Cultural Center of La Courneuve, La Ménagerie de Verre, La Commune—National Drama Center of Aubervilliers.
Performance presented as part of the Festival d’Automne. For the creation of *Bunker*, Marion Siéfert and Matthieu Bareyre were awarded an artistic residency in two departments of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, as part of the culture-health program led by the Festival d’Automne in Paris in collaboration with the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris.
The Ziferte Productions Company is supported by the DRAC Île-de-France. Performance funded by the Île-de-France Region. Marion Siéfert is an associate artist at the T2G —Théâtre de Gennevilliers—National Drama Center—and Points Communs—New National Stage of Cergy-Pontoise
Special thanks to Professor Carine Karachi and to all the patients who welcomed us. To Dr. Bertrand Mathon, Thomas Laurent, Dr. Florence Laigle, Viviane du Boullay, David Maresca and his family, Julien Migozzi, Kin No Shima (Hyères Kyudo Association), Martine Bareyre, Julie Bareyre, Christine, and Jean-Marie Siéfert.
As part of the Autumn Festival
