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FLESH
Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola Cie STILL Life
VISUAL THEATER
February 2022 - 80'
// FESTIVAL D'AVIGNON IN 2022 //
// LONDON INTERNATIONAL MIME FESTIVAL 2023 //
From a wedding anniversary party to a hospital room, from a virtual reality experience to a family reunion in a café, FLESH is a visual and non-verbal show, a contemporary fable that plunges the spectator into the thickness of our flesh.
Concept and direction Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola Scenario Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola and Thomas van Zuylen Interpretation Muriel Legrand, Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola, Jonas Wertz Staging and movement Sophie Leso Scenography Aurélie Deloche Assistants scenography Rudi Bovy, Sophie Hazebrouck Intern scenography Farouk Adoulaye Accessories Noémie Vanheste Costume design Camille Collin Seamstress Cinzia Derom Technical direction Nicolas Olivier Light design Guillaume Toussaint-Fromentin Sound design Éric Ronsse Stage manager Rudy Bovy / Charlotte Persoons Masks and puppets Joachim Jannin Voice-over Stéphane Pirard General assistant Sophie Jallet Development and distribution BLOOM Project
With FLESH, composed of four short stories for four actor·ress·e·s, Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola map human flesh, from every angle.
FLESH brings into play the bruised, raw flesh, but also tender and above all in eternal need of the other. Rooted in his body for better or for worse, the human being is indistinguishable from his flesh, incarnation of his being in the world. However, today, this anchoring tends to disappear.
From a wedding anniversary party to a hospital room, from a virtual reality experience to a family reunion in a café, FLESH is a visual and non-verbal show, a contemporary fable that plunges the spectator into the thickness of our flesh. With humor and strangeness, the STILL Life company stirs us up in an invigorating way : from our bruised flesh to our living flesh, there is only one step.
Production STILL Life Company Co-production Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Cultural Center of Huy,Kinneksbond/Mamer Cultural Centre, Coop asbl and Shelter Prod Delegate production Théâtre Les Tanneurs Theater With the support the Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation - theater service, the National Theater of Wallonia-Brussels, Taxshelter.be, ING, the Tax-shelter of the Belgian federal government, Wallonie-Bruxelles International and WBTD With the participation of the Performing Arts Center With help of the Festival de Liège and the 140
The STILL Life company is associated artist with the Theatre Les Tanneurs.
Contact distribution non-French-speaking territories - Aurora Nova / Wolfgang Hoffmann - wolfgang@auroranova.org