A drunk woman starts to dance. Her husband who is waiting for her while smoking a gigantic cigar grows mad. A fight breaks out when she gets home. An earl appears followed by a dozen white dwarves. During a funeral service, the earl kills a bike rider, shoots on the dwarves, and flees on the bike. He bursts into a circus and kills all the performing artists.

Not specified

Depero Fortunato

Italy

Anacapri

États-Unis

Annandale-on-Hudson (New-York))

Printed outline

Drunkenness

Wealth

Autonomous limb

Animated object

Madness

Suicide

Household quarrel

Transparent body

Dwarf

Mutilation

Grotesque

Fantasy

Comical

Burlesque

Italian

Hyperbolic action

Visual distortion

Simultaneous scenes

Suicidi e omicidi acrobatici

Acrobatic suicides and homicides

Whilst she is walking on a beach, Caroline, a puppeteer, tells Filip the story of how they met twenty years ago. The action of the play goes back to that time, when she was a student and was attending her last drawing class. The teacher gives them a horse as part of a teaching experiment. The horse suddenly bursts in the classroom. Sacha is then informed that her father, who lives in another country thousands of miles away, is dying. Caroline offers to go with her and so she can say her last goodbye. They drive there with Raphaël, whose girlfriend Marie lives close to their final destination. When they arrive at Marie’s house, Raphaël learns that Marie has been cheating on him with his brother. He still decides to stay with her. Caroline and Sasha leave and arrive in the holiday cottage of one of their classmates. There, Caroline meets Filip. They share a night of love, but at dawn, he is gone. Caroline and Sasha continue their journey where they witness an accident, and they arrive in the village where Sasha’s father lives. Sasha goes to join him whilst Caroline walks along the little streets and meets the villagers. Sasha comes back and announces that her father died. She’s holding a picture of herself when she was a child, and starts talking to the picture and telling it about her passion for puppets. The next day, Sasha and Caroline attend the funeral, and then take a plane to go back to France.

Shadow theatre

Direct Manipulation Bunraku-type Puppetry

France

Charleville-Mézières

Electronic text

Remembrance

Journey

Death

Passion

Future

Unfaithfulness

Love

Grief

Road-movie

Realist

Dramatic

Fantastic

François Cervantès, Attends-moi, Charleville-Mézières, 2010.