"ALICE IN WONDERBOX" MANGANO-MASSIP COMPAGNIE - France
11.10 tuesday 19.00 URSYNOWSKIE CENTRUM KULTURY "ALTERNATYWY", WARSaw, Poland
P o l i s h P r e m i e r e o f t h e s h o w
Alice is a young person in construction : her image, her relationship to others, her body, everything is changing and she is looking for new benchmarks in her life.
Alice is also an internet freak (like many of her friends), where she thinks she can find shelter from reality. But this Wonderbox where she spends days after days is even more flickering and unstable than her own reality: Avatars, false identities, fakenews, prince charming or super challenges that turn into deadly traps, bullying, perpetual and violent comments...
“Let her head be chopped !” proclaims the Queen of Hearts, “It’s time, I’m late” is the motto of the unbridled white rabbit race “Here you have to run to stay in the same place. For going somewhere else, you’d have to run twice as fast» Says the Red Queen again.
“Happy non-birthday”, Mad Hatter’s happy decree to have fun at all costs.
This Wonderland, from a century ago, strangely echoes the issues of the younglings facing the World Wide Web’s Wonderbox.
An initiatory journey in which the violence and anguish of human relationships are revealed, identity wavers, loneliness intensifies and the real and virtual intermingle.
The eternal existential questions are confronted with the pressing matters of augmented reality, transhumanism and artificial intelligence.
Which youth for which new humanity?
Directing and writing SARA MANGANO & PIERRE-YVES MASSIP
Directors assistant: Juliette Wierzbicki
Light Design : FRED MOREAU – Sound design : ROBINSON SEMPAUROCA
Set design: PYM – video design SEBASTIEN SIDANER
performers : SARA MANGANO, PIERRE-YVES MASSIP, BARBARA MANGANO, JULES POULAIN-PLISSONEAU
Alice is also an internet freak (like many of her friends), where she thinks she can find shelter from reality. But this Wonderbox where she spends days after days is even more flickering and unstable than her own reality: Avatars, false identities, fakenews, prince charming or super challenges that turn into deadly traps, bullying, perpetual and violent comments...
“Let her head be chopped !” proclaims the Queen of Hearts, “It’s time, I’m late” is the motto of the unbridled white rabbit race “Here you have to run to stay in the same place. For going somewhere else, you’d have to run twice as fast» Says the Red Queen again.
“Happy non-birthday”, Mad Hatter’s happy decree to have fun at all costs.
This Wonderland, from a century ago, strangely echoes the issues of the younglings facing the World Wide Web’s Wonderbox.
An initiatory journey in which the violence and anguish of human relationships are revealed, identity wavers, loneliness intensifies and the real and virtual intermingle.
The eternal existential questions are confronted with the pressing matters of augmented reality, transhumanism and artificial intelligence.
Which youth for which new humanity?
Directing and writing SARA MANGANO & PIERRE-YVES MASSIP
Directors assistant: Juliette Wierzbicki
Light Design : FRED MOREAU – Sound design : ROBINSON SEMPAUROCA
Set design: PYM – video design SEBASTIEN SIDANER
performers : SARA MANGANO, PIERRE-YVES MASSIP, BARBARA MANGANO, JULES POULAIN-PLISSONEAU
Mangano-Massip Company - a contemporary theatre company whose research is focused on building a body dramaturgy in open dialogue with other performing arts. What interests us is to use the most concrete and tangible aspects , bodies, objects, materials to tell the unspeakable, the invisible, the ineffable ..
The body and its movement becomes poetic instruments of a revealed ontology from a different world .
Our work questions the impact of emotion on movement and the possibility of a theatre rooted in the flesh and muscle. A theatre where the metaphorical body, creates the " Fable " and allows the appearance of a meaningful speech.
Our challenge is to invent languages that correspond to topics covered,
creating echoes and correspondences, to weave the threads of a revealing poetic imagination .
Revealing as in the photographic sense of the term: that reveals the hidden meaning, the possible attempt, In Power ...
We also wonder about the relationship every time renewed in the space of the representation and in the report to the public to find other way to make appear our vision of the world.
For us theatre is a limitless field of research, a curiosity of every moment , a political and social issue. It is a powerful object to be handled with delicacy ... And conscience.
« Tout symbole a une chair, tout songe une réalité »
O.Milosz
The body and its movement becomes poetic instruments of a revealed ontology from a different world .
Our work questions the impact of emotion on movement and the possibility of a theatre rooted in the flesh and muscle. A theatre where the metaphorical body, creates the " Fable " and allows the appearance of a meaningful speech.
Our challenge is to invent languages that correspond to topics covered,
creating echoes and correspondences, to weave the threads of a revealing poetic imagination .
Revealing as in the photographic sense of the term: that reveals the hidden meaning, the possible attempt, In Power ...
We also wonder about the relationship every time renewed in the space of the representation and in the report to the public to find other way to make appear our vision of the world.
For us theatre is a limitless field of research, a curiosity of every moment , a political and social issue. It is a powerful object to be handled with delicacy ... And conscience.
« Tout symbole a une chair, tout songe une réalité »
O.Milosz