Philippe Quesne | France
The Night of the Moles (Welcome to Caveland!)
ca. 85 min
no speech
Visual Theatre | Object Theatre | Concert
Production: Nanterre-Amandiers – centre dramatique national with the support of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès („New Settings“ program) | Coproductions: Steirischer Herbst, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, La Filature – Scène nationale, Mulhouse, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Théâtre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Kaaïtheater, Centre d’art Le Parvis à Tarbes | NXTSTP with the support of the European Union Culture Program
Performers: Yvan Clédat, Jean-Charles Dumay, Léo Gobin, Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher, Sébastien Jacobs, Thomas Suire, Gaëtan Vourc’h | Conception, direction, set design: Philippe Quesne | set design assistant: Elodie Dauguet | Dramaturgic collaboration: Ismael Jude, Smaranda Olcese | Costume design: Corine Petitpierre | Technical collaborations: Marc Chevillon, Yvan Clédat, Research Group „Behavioral Objects“ – coordination Samuel Bianchini | Stage management: Marc Chevillon | Light: Thomas Laigle | Sound: Alain Gravier | Stage hand: Joachim Fosset
The audience is immersed in an allegorical world, inhabited by a family of giant moles and other creatures belonging to a subterranean universe. Referencing the great works of science fiction, “The Night of the Moles” makes the theatre an utopian living space, in which dreaming is inseparable from the awakening of awareness; it tries to rediscover the deep roots of a collective poetic imagination, swathed in philosophical myth.
