
Printed
80 pages
Author(s)
2084
Un futur plein d'avenir
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.
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.
First performance
Théâtre Jeune Public de Strasbourg, directed by Ismaïl Safwan (Flash Marionnettes Company)
Publications and translations
Dorin, Philippe, 2084. Scènes de marionnettes, Paris, l'école des loisirs, 2012.
