2084 - Philippe Dorin

Printed

80 pages

Author(s)

2084

Un futur plein d'avenir

Philippe Dorin
| 2010 | Strasbourg, France
Genre
Scènes de marionnettes
Characters
Le Présentateur, Foetus interstellaire, HP, Vincent, Vanessa, Marie, Numéro 3, Numéro 5, Numéro 11, Mozart, Numéro 8, Numéro 9, RV, GG, DD, Têtedelard, Boutdechou, Lumgo, Numéro 26, Numéro 31, Numéro 43, Numéro 25, Numéro zéro, Numéro 1/5000e, X'ler, La maman T, Le petit T
Acts count
17
Note

Responding to a commission from the Flash Marionnettes company, with whom it is his third collaboration, Phillipe Dorin imagines, against a backdrop of parody of Orwell's 1984, the world of 2084 where robots live alongside individuals, animals, and cloned objects. The text is presented as a series of short sketches.

Abstract

The dystopian world of the future

A TV presenter invites the audience to time travel to the year 2084; he ages rapidly and dies. A foetus floats in space and hums the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Numbers 3 and 5 harass number 11 who wants to be left alone, driving him to suicide several times. The voice from the speaker congratulates 3 and 5. Two robots talk using only letters and acronyms. Mozart, afraid of being forgotten, doubts his own identity. The creatures Têtedelard and Boutdechou reflect on their potential, and then the former dismembers the latter while Lumgo, a deceitful creature with disorganised syntax, tries to convince Boutdechou to become the king of humanity. Clones have to play family but no longer understand the concepts of man, woman or love. An alien mother listens absent-mindedly to her son tell stories of life on Earth in the past. Behind them, the planet Earth rises.

Hypotexts
198419492001: A Space Odyssey1968
Composition date
2010

First performance

Strasbourg, France, 2010 -

Théâtre Jeune Public de Strasbourg, directed by Ismaïl Safwan (Flash Marionnettes Company)

Publications and translations

Publication

Dorin, Philippe, 2084. Scènes de marionnettes, Paris, l'école des loisirs, 2012.

Language
French
Literary tones
Absurd, Dramatic, Tragic, Parodistic
Animation Techniques
Tabletop Puppetry
Audience
Young audiences

Keywords

Theatrical techniques

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Manuela Mohr

Translator

Vagia Grounidou