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Isabelle Darras - CIE AFTER PARTY//CIE
At the junction of object theatre and puppetry, Isabelle Darras’ creation tells the story of three downgraded women, reduced to the status of found objects in the lost and found they now inhabit. Claire, equestrian stunt woman unemployed since she suffered a fall, now working the welcome desk, meets her colleagues, Christelle, book editor and Teresa bus driver, all of them working the same basement counter. How will these women with “unusual career paths” manage to fight back in our throwaway society?
At the center of Isabelle Darras’ work is an examination of the fragility of people facing the bureaucratic and social behemoth. Fed by this sentence by Annie Ernaux “ These days, objects don’t age anymore,” she builds a scene that owes its neo-vintage, retro-futuristic monochromatic esthetic to Roy Andersson’s Nous Les Vivants. She describes a sort of no man’s land in which people and objects are lost as they search for a way to resist the absurdity of a system that shreds us.
Calendar
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- 20:45
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- 20:15
Discussion "Rencontre Constructeurs d’Histoires" after show
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- 20:45
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- 20:45
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- 20:45
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- 20:45
Introduction - 19:30
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- 20:15
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- 20:45
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- 20:45
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- 20:45
Information
Language
FR
Venue
Salle Jacques Huisman
Duration
60’
Surrounding the show
24.02.2021 - Discussion "Rencontre Constructeurs d’Histoires" after show
02.03.2021 - Introduction - 19:30
Cast
Direction & text
Isabelle Darras
Elisabeth Ancion
Performance & collaboration on the script
Audrey Dero
Sandrine Hooge
Catherine Mestoussis
Creation assitant
Céline Dumont
Residence assistant
Alice Hubball
Light design & technical direction
Jérôme Dejean
Stage Manager
Grégoire Tempels
Sound design
David Chazam
Video design
Eve Martin
John Pirard
with the participation of
Vera Fonteyne
François Neycken
Jade Eloy-Hooge
André Pasquasy
Nicolas Bruno
Isabelle Urbain
et de tous les voisins, amis et passants de la Rue Mandeville à Liège (BE)
Puppets
Carole Allemand (Dolly)
Joachim Jannin (la grand-mère)
Costumes
Elisabeth Ancion
Scenography
Saskia Louwaard
Katrijn Baeten
Makers
Ateliers du Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Mars/Mons Arts de la Scène et Maison de la culture de Tournai/maison de création
Construction backup
Fabien Laisnez
Pictures
David Bormans
Jérôme Dejean
Dramaturgical advice
Dominique Roodthooft
Sound design
Vincent Cahay
Development and touring
BLOOM Project
Production manager
Mars - Mons Arts de la Scène
Production
After Party//Cie, Maison de la culture de Tournai/maison de création, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre Royal de Namur, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières, La Coop asbl et Shelter Prod
With support from
Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - service du théâtre et de Taxshelter.be, ING et du tax-shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge
With the help of
SACD, Théâtre des Doms (Avignon), Maison de la Marionnette (Tournai), Le Corridor (Liège), Factory/Festival de Liège, de La Roseraie (Bruxelles), Théâtre de l’Ancre et l’EDEN (Charleroi), Centre culturel de Verviers, Le Bosco sprl
Thanks to
Bureaux des objets trouvés de Liège, Bruxelles et Tournai ainsi que Valérie Lesort, Stéphane Bissot, Bouli Lanners, Maia Baran, Anne Paulicevich et Frédéric Fonteyne, Greg Houben, Vincent Cahay, Steven Haine, Frank et Nicolas Pepermans, Florence Meur, Isabelle Huart, Serge Bodart, Pierre Clément, Nadine Dhoor, Christelle Darras, Axel De Booseré, Patrick Donnay, Danielle Parmentier, Vincent Eloy, Romain Laval, Delphine Bibet, Benoît Devos, Michel Dejeneffe, la famille Dachouffe, Morgan Politi, Vincent Solheid, Sarah Brahy, Jade El Our
