Jérôme Bel, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Estelle Zhong Mengual

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MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
septembersept 23 – 28
1/3

1h15

Prices €8 to €25 
Subscribers €8 to €18

Tuesday september 23

19h

Wednesday september 24

19h

Thursday september 25

19h

Friday september 26

14h30

Saturday september 27

16h30

Sunday september 28

15h30

A performance by Jérôme Bel, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Estelle Zhong Mengual. Based on the original work by Baptiste Morizot and including an excerpt from The Eye of the Crocodile by Val Plumwood (Wildproject editions). Performance Jolente De Keersmaeker. With alternating performances by Yasmine Benelouasi, Nélia Mankour Abdelmalek. Lighting Iwan Van Vlierberghe. Artistic consulting and executive direction R.B. Jérôme Bel, Rebecca Lasselin. Administration Sandro Grando. 

Production R.B. Jérôme Bel
Co-production Fonds de dotation du Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest; CND – Centre national de la danse; Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy; Festival d’Automne à Paris; MC93 – Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis; Comédie de Caen – CDN de Normandie; Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie; R.B.; tg STAN
With the support of STAGES – Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift, co-funded by the European Union
Special thanks to La Ménagerie de verre for generously providing rehearsal space, and to the publishers Actes Sud, Bayard, Wildproject, and Reporters Without Borders
R.B. Jérôme Bel is supported by the DRAC Île-de-France – French Ministry of Culture
Jérôme Bel and Estelle Zhong Mengual are associate artists at the Comédie de Caen CDN de Normandie
For ecological reasons, the R.B. Jérôme Bel company no longer travels by plane

MC93 – Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis and Festival d’Automne à Paris are co-producers of this performance.


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Pursuing the collaboration they began in 2023, Jérôme Bel, Jolente De Keersmaeker and Estelle Zhong Mengual bring Baptiste Morizot 's thoughts to the stage in order to ask questions about our place in the living world. Together, they conjure up an account or story that is told to a child by a female philosopher. The ancestral worlds it evokes set up the possibility of reinventing the present one.

On an almost empty stage, which coincides with a vision of a theatre conceived as deconstructed and diminishing, a female philosopher speaks to a child. The latter is both witness to the present and future agent in a world which is becoming uninhabitable. Calling upon the words and concepts of Baptiste Morizot, a contemporary thinker of the living world, Jolente De Keersmaeker sets off on a journey through unexplored landscapes populated by extraordinary creatures, including wolves, bacteria, humans and crocodiles. Plunging into an ancestral age in this way reveals our common ancestry with non-human species. The play mobilizes the representational powers of theatre in order to implement philosophical concepts that have the power to transform the world through the rearrangement of our relationship with the living. In this piece for adult audiences, in which the place of the child is a central one, Jérôme Bel and Estelle Zhong Mengual defend the importance of considering “other ways of being living beings” in order to create the necessary conditions for a new common future.

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