Business: The Production

Business was launched by Alexandre Liaume, the producer of Medialex who comissioned the play to David Furlong. The idea was to make a comedy about an American, a French and an English man meeting in an airport. Drawing on recent popular success in Comedy such as Francis Veber's « See you next Tuesday » or « Art » by Yasmina Reza, Business was then written as a "comédie de moeurs" in the same tradition of Tom Stoppard or Christopher Hampton. In the process, the playwright felt as well the potential of putting on a show which could be highly relevant nowadays.

The setting of the action itself, an airport, was so relevant to today's world and the play was deeply related to recent international history. Echange Theatre Company joined in with the will to tackle the piece as a devised show and make it a highly sensorial experience. Inspired by contemporary works by French Canadian director Robert Lepage or Deborah Warner in England , the production of Business will use images, lights and sound effects as fundamental parts of the show. The team (composed by ETC's sound engineer, lighting designer, production designer and the director) creates together a very contemporary performance, in order to take the public through a journey inside the play, and not as simple audience members.