I épochè I
Co-creation : Anna MCGRATH, Matteo R. BERNARDINI, Baptiste BROSSARD & SUZANNE
Production : Compagnie REVEILLE
Performers : SUZANNE (Lorenz Jack CHAILLAT CAVAILLÉ, Julien CHAUDET, Julien DERANSY, Mélina FERNÉ, Grégoire FRANÇOIS & Eurydice GOUGEON-MARINE
Voices : Eve Gerbaudi & Mélina Ferné
Supports : Cité Internationale des Arts
Photography : Baptiste BROSSARD & Marlène VIGUIER
Co-creation : Anna MCGRATH, Matteo R. BERNARDINI, Baptiste BROSSARD & SUZANNE
Production : Compagnie REVEILLE
Performers : SUZANNE (Lorenz Jack CHAILLAT CAVAILLÉ, Julien CHAUDET, Julien DERANSY, Mélina FERNÉ, Grégoire FRANÇOIS & Eurydice GOUGEON-MARINE
Voices : Eve Gerbaudi & Mélina Ferné
Supports : Cité Internationale des Arts
Photography : Baptiste BROSSARD & Marlène VIGUIER
“I came to the world anxious to give a meaning to things, my soul filled with the desire to be the origin of the world, and here I find myself, an object among other objects.”
– Frantz Fanon
If you opened your senses right now for the first time, what would reality look like? What would it feel like? And how would that change you?
I épochè I is a theatre performance asking what happens when you push against reality, and what happens when reality pushes back.
If you opened your senses right now for the first time, what would reality look like? What would it feel like? And how would that change you?
I épochè I is a theatre performance asking what happens when you push against reality, and what happens when reality pushes back.
Life isn’t boring.
You’re boring.
it’s not even your fault, really.
It’s just that the unknown becomes known,
and then the known becomes familiar,
et voila, now everything is familiar,
and you treat it like it’s familiar,
and now you’re boring
|épochè| is a theatre show.
|épochè| doesn’t look or sound like
anything you’ve seen before.
|épochè| is not boring.
What |épochè| will do for you, for free, is take
the familiar and make it unknown again.
We use video, we use live performance,
we use earphones, we use blankets,
all this and more,
just so you can rediscover anew
the skin you live in.
Aren’t we great?
Life isn’t boring.
Don’t be boring.
Come and make some |épochè|.
Anna McGrath / Matteo R. Bernardini
Director and author / Author and playwright
Focussing on emotionally evocative stories for screen and stage, Anna McGrath explores how excruciatingly painful and hilariously joyful it is to be human. She works closely with Matteo R. Bernardini who writes for film and theatre. He has won screenwriting prizes in the USA, Australia and Italy. Their company REVEILLE produces multidisciplinary projects collaborating with artists from around the world. Anna McGrath (Australia) and Matteo R. Bernardini (Italia) are recipient of Cité internationale des arts Performing Arts Committee.
Baptiste Brossard
Artist, video maker et sound creator
Baptiste Brossard, recipient of the Paris Prize in 2017 for the ‘‘Propane’’ project, works at the crossroads of film essay, sound study and sculptural project.
He presented the ‘‘Contre-mesure’’ project as part of the 63rd Salon de Montrouge. Baptiste Brossard (France) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts through the programme of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
I épochè I
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