Project based on Heiner Müller's text "Despoiled Shore Medea Material Landscape"

December 2023

The audience enters. They are faced with a bare stage that will gradually be covered with a green carpet by performers resembling technicians who have come from the outside.
At the outset of the performance lies the heart of the project and the system that remains in place throughout the play.
First and foremost, it is with the notion and feeling of invasion that we wanted to work. How do we create a space that is being invaded? Thus, this bare theater stage will fall prey to accumulation. As time passes, its nakedness diminishes. The audience then becomes witnesses to a space that fills up and characters upon whom the landscape continues to impose itself.
The second aspect is the idea that this invasion comes from the outside. In a world where the boundary between the intimate and the public becomes increasingly permeable, we wanted to create the sensation that the invasive threat originates from the exterior. Thus, the rule is simple: everything that happens on the stage comes from outside. It is the door at the back of the stage that becomes a passageway and a visible interstice between this interior and exterior.
Another aspect that we wished to articulate is the interplay between truth and falsehood.
It is through this that we can reproduce what appeared to us upon reading Heiner Müller's text: a play of gazes. What belongs to the realm of fantasy, delirium, dream, and what pertains to what I see?

Images of the project

intention film

Photo of a model, at the begining of the performance

Photo of a model, in the middle of the performance

Photo of a model, at the end of the performance

Photo of a model, at the end of the performance

Photo of a model, at the end of the performance