A man named Précair has just lost his job. Sitting on a public bench, he suddenly sees a huge branch fall from a tree. Another day, in the same place, Précair's left arm falls off, then his right. To help him, a kind man takes him to an arm merchant. But as Précair has little money, he leaves the shop with two pieces of wood instead of arms. His wife Zalou leaves him. Précair, now made entirely of wood, runs after work, which constantly eludes him. Hired as a flower pot during a social cocktail party, Précair is treated like an insignificant object, then thrown out onto the street. He loses his head (which is picked up by a dog), then his speech. Précair, now with a dog's head, behaves like one and is taken in by homeless people who are victims of a slum landlord. A dog with a human head (Précair's) arrives and sniffs Précair lying on the ground. Précair stands up, regaining his human appearance. He follows the dog up a long staircase that leads him to the middle of the sky.

Young audiences

Cagnard Jean

France

Meung-sur-Loire

Printed

Precariousness

Unemployment

Dehumanisation

Tree

Dismembering

Homeless

Slumlord

Hunger

Absurd

Fantastic

Comical

Ironic

French

Chômeur

Wife

Policeman

Landlord

Parable

Silent scene

Set that comes to life

Character ejected through the door

Fall of a set element

Comical fall of a character

Fall of a body part

Throwing rubbish at a character

Scream

Rainfall on stage

A human-faced animal

Inserting poetry

Chorality

Ascension

Character represented in animal form

L’Entonnoir

Funnel

The collection brings together small stories or short heterogeneous dialogues, everyday or absurd scenes on various themes: family, school, work, social conflicts, justice, war, mendicancy, etc. The human turns out to be disposable, just like crumpled paper is.

Not specified

Clermont-Ferrand

Trash can

Humanity

Remembrance

Paper

Daily

Consumer society

Disposable human

Dramatic

Fantasy

Satirical

Humorous

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Doctor

Leader

Father

Mother

Daughter

Politician

Woodworker

Actor

Cook

Salesman

Postman

Schoolteacher

African

Child

Nurse

Old man

Soldier

Puppeteer

Judge

Prosecutor

Defendant

Flower

Young girl

Lady

Grandmother

Garbage man

Comic distortion of language

Personification

Apparition of the puppeteer

Change of head on sight

Soliloquy

Punching

Metamorphosis

Court scene

Recounting of memories

Histoires post-it

Post-it stories