Wilderness

'Three years ago I said goodbye to my friend Arieh. He couldn’t bear the life that had been imposed on us anymore and dreamed of large spaces, nature, freedom and solitude. He left two years ago. And then he came back.

We are inspired by his story – the tale of a man who rejects the compromises imposed by society, and who will go beyond himself into an extreme experience – to write Wilderness. We both need to create this performance because we need to re-discover time, space and silence. Three essential things that are disappearing little by little and which represent perhaps the true riches of today. Three things which perhaps future generations will not know.'

Vincent Hennebicq & Arieh Worthalter

Wilderness is a performance about escaping into nature. Or rather, about life in the sanctuary found in the middle of the woods. We need nature, whether we step into it or not. We need to be able to escape there, just as surely as we need hope...

In Wilderness, the hermit breaks the social contract; he wants to escape the evolution of the century. He invents a new life for himself; another relationship with time. His world is different, wilder, more uncertain, more dangerous – it is quite simply truer. Leave, the time of Wilderness, the deafening noise and the cold concrete of our cities. To confront oneself, like this character alone on stage, linking life stories with original guitar pieces, sheer beauty, but also extreme violence, forests, coastlines and deserts, where balance and chaos reign at the same time.

Wilderness is the stripping down of a man confronted with himself, with his limits and his desires, in the depths of a natural world with infinite borders.

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