“It’s Holy Night, damn it! Grannie is under the table” [C’EST NOEL TANT PIS! GRAND-MERE EST SOUS LA TABLE!] by Pierre Notte – Directed by Elias Kountis

Christmas Evening. A family is united to celebrate the Holy Night. Soon everything is going to turn to a nightmare. This Christmas Night grand mother vanishes. She is under the table…

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Playwright Pierre Notte is also a director, journalist, novelist, poet and arts consultant. He was named secretary general of the Comédie-Française in 2006 and left the position in 2009 to devote himself to his artistic work.

Plays include Et l’enfant sur le loup, Deux petites Dames Vers Le Nord, Les Couteaux Dans Le Dos, J’existe (Foutez-moi la aix), A Cabaret (Paris, Les Déchargeurs, 2006) and Bidules, trucs. Since August 2009 he has been the resident playwright at Les Déchargeurs.

He is also an associate playwright and author at the Théâtre du Rond-Point. His play Moi Aussi, Je Suis Catherine Deneuve staged by Jean-Claude Cotillard, won the 2005 Theatre Prize from the Fondation Diane et Lucien Barrière, and the Molière award for Best Private Theatre Production in 2006; Notte was also nominated for Best Playwright. The play has been staged in Tokyo, Rome and Sofia. He was named the SACD Best New Theater Talent in 2006. Since 1998 he has been an arts consultant for the theater department at the Lycée Saint-Louis Saint-Clément in Viry-Châtillon. He is a Chevalier des Arts et des Letters. }