Story by Jean-Pascal Viault
directeur artistique – metteur en scène
Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
artistic director – stage director
Knight of the National Order of Merit
All photos courtesy of the author
“May the road rise to meet you, may the wind always be at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face…” Old Irish Blessing
From April 14th to 21st, Ireland became both a stage and trial, a setting and challenge. Beneath a shifting sky—at times slate-grey, at times liquid light—a caravan from another age took to the road. To the sound of an Irish ballad that seemed to rise from the wind itself, and to the lilting rhythm of the jig, nearly thirty Bugattis, Amilcars, and Rileys carved their path westward, into the raw soul of Connemara. More than a thousand kilometers were devoured between winds and tides, across rugged land, peat, and ever-shifting horizons.