Tel un champignon poussé sur des pépites d’or Rue de la Chute (Fall street) est un ancien village né dans les années 1865. Il tient son nom d’une expédition au cours de laquelle un cheval fit une chute dans un ravin. Alors que les hommes descendaient récupérer le matériel sanglé sur l’animal, ils découvrirent une mine d’or.

La rumeur se répandit très vite. Quelques jours plus tard une ville jaillit à cet endroit. Elle prospéra durant cinq années. Quand le filon fut épuisé, il ne resta plus qu’une petite auberge, comme une station-service plantée dans le désert.

Ce spectacle est lui aussi la trace d’un rêve ou d’un cauchemar dont rien ne permet d’affirmer l’exactitude. Il est nourri de légendes du cinéma qui ont hanté nos rêves d’enfant.

Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Jean-Luc Godard, Arthur Penn, les frères Cohen, Jack London, et beaucoup d’autres nous ont accompagné.

Nous savons bien que ces légendes, jamais innocentes, célébraient la conquête d’une nation, mais parlaient aussi de la conquête d’un territoire.

Que représentait la justice à cette époque ?

Où est-elle aujourd’hui, à travers la conquête du monde ?

Ce spectacle de 2h00 n’est pas fait pour certaines âmes trop sensibles. Aux parents de décider s’ils emmènent leurs enfants.

 Like a mushroom grown on nuggets of gold, Fall Street is an old village which was born in the year 1865.  It acquired its name from an expedition during which a horse took a fall over a cliff.

When the men went down to retrieve the equipment that had been strapped to the animal, they discovered a goldmine.

Word spread quickly.  A few days later a village sprouted there.  It prospered for 5 years.  When supply ran out, all that was left was a small inn, like a service station planted in the middle of the desert.

These villages were populated by gold diggers, shops and saloons ; as well as prostitutes and shady characters that the west, at that time, had a particular knack for attracting. All of this beyond the borders of The States.

These places knew no laws being outside of all jurisdiction ;  before finding any semblance of order they had to wait for America to attach them to a newly created state whilst it nibbled it’s way through territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The various Indian tribes were, it goes without saying, relentlessly banished to reserves where they were detained under watchful and often hostile American eyes up until the time of their genocide.

This show is a tale which consists of a succession of tales.  Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Jean-Luc Godard, Arthur Penn, the Cohen brothers, Jack London and many others have accompanied us along the way.

At that time, the newspapers fashioned veritable myths concerning specific people and attributed intentions to their actions that were 10 to 100 times more dramatic than in reality (Calamity Jane, The Daltons, etc.).  It is in this way that they created the mythical roots of this new land.

The American cinema of the 40s and 50s was a contributing factor to the creation of these tales. Therefore, cinema is present in the telling of this show’s legendary adventure.  The ever-present gun is the same as that used in films of the time in which you never saw the cowboy reload bullets into his weapon.

The story recounts the mysterious sending of this fictious weapon by the Indians’ descendants in the 1950s, which ends up in the hands of an ancestor in the year 1875.  It has since been passed on to the Legend-Man (The Assassin).  As the bullets travelled through time, not only did they become real but they also acquired a timeless quality, which bought him time between the shot and the impact on the targeted body.

Jean-Luc COURCOULT, author – director, founder of the company Royal de Luxe

"A son public, Royal de Luxe offre la joie de la création en direct du partage, de l'humour, de la prouesse, de l'émerveillement, et de grandes histoires simples longuement mûries, qu'on lira en ouvrant ce livre ... ".