ARCHIVES 2010 / Big Bang

After seven years of shared life, the members of the Vivarium Studio have slightly changed there eco-system. Some of them have left or taken a pause, others have arrived. The desire for renewal, encounters and formal experiments has relaunched the group toward a new show. "For each crea?tion," Philippe Quesne explains, "the writing begins during rehearsals, with the show's title, a pretext for experimentation - from the creation process to performance - that nourishes a form of ambiguity between the true and the false, the real and the artificial." Big Bang evokes as much a gigantic explosion as a founding theory or a simple comic book onomatopoeia. The play could take place on a small island, on which a shipwrecked group would remake the world, would go back to the origins to replay history in an accelerated fashion. A place that would serve as a frame for a succession of tableaux, like short plays, perhaps musicals, that would be used for the almost anatomical study of a human microcosm put into an unexpected geography. Big Bang will thus unfold a type of evolutionary theory, marking ruptures, inventions, decompositions, disappearances, like the strangest mutations. Undoubtedly men and animals, silence and languages, nothing and everything will exist: the floatation of the living. From plankton to post-modern, the Gymnase Aubanel will welcome the large and small history of mankind. ADB