circus  | grande salle | running time 1 hr 40 mn | 8 years and older

wednesday 19 october 2011 at 19 h 30
thursday 20 october 2011 at 19 h 30
friday 21 october 2011 at 20 h 30

James Thiérrée

Astonishing, spinning, hilarious: there really aren’t enough adjectives to describe the workd of James Thiérrée, the prodigal son of the theatre/circus. His piece Raoul is an epic full of noise, furor and tenderness, inside the magical world of a bushy-haired hermit who confuses his image with the reflection he sees in mirrors. Raoul leaps, soars, crawls, disappears, reappears. He seems to multiply, now springing up from someplace on the ground, then waving to us from the top of a tall mast. James Thiérrée athletically defies the laws of gravity in this poetic, ethereal work. Raoul captivates, wows, delights. We follow him into the air, on the ground, this Don Quixote figure who seems to be the last living human being in a world filled with weird creatures, a giant jellyfish or cloth centipedes. The stage becomes an improbable Noah’s Ark, a moving ship whose sails snap audibly in the wind. The sky is stormy, we enter a deep cave and experience rough seas, in a piece filled with grace, inventiveness and beauty.

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costumes, bestiary Victoria Thiérrée / sound Thomas Delot / lighting Jérôme Sabre / sets James Thiérrée / scenic intervention Mehdi Duman / stage management Anthony Nicolas, Guillaume Pissembon / lighting director Bastien Courthieu / dresser and prop mistress Danièle Gagliardo / electrical scrolls by Matthieu Chedid / assistants to the director Laetitia Hélin, Sidonie Pigeon / artistic interventions Bruno Fontaine, Kaori Ito, Magnus Jakobsson / confection, fabrication Matthieu Bony, Brigitte Brassart, Véronique Grand, Pauline Köcher, Jean Malo, Marie Rossetti, Monika Schwartzl, Victoria Thiérrée, Pierre Jean Verbraeken, Philippe WelSusheela / with James Thiérrée

Production Cie du Hanneton /Junebug. Coproduction La Coursive, Scène nationale de La Rochelle / Théâtre Royal de Namur / the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand / Théâtre de la Ville, Paris / barbicanbite09 – Barbican Theatre London and Crying out Loud / Abbey Theatre, Dublin / Maison de la Danse, Lyon / Théâtre National de Toulouse. La Cie du Hanneton receives support for its projects from the Foundation BNP Paribas.