Live Art production office
NO ONE
Cie Still Life
VISUAL THEATER
Creating September 2019 - 60'
Of all the threats hanging over us, the most formidable,
we know that the only real one is ourselves.
René Girard
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Through a chaotic situation, NO ONE stages the tension between individual and group. And questions the dilution of responsibility and the designation of a scapegoat within the crowd.
Concept and direction Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola | Interpretation Julie Dieu, Colin Jolet, Muriel Legrand, Sophie Leso, François Regout, and a group of 10 extras | Screenplay Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola, Thomas van Zuylen | Scenography Aurélie Deloche | Lighting and special effects creation Hugues Girard | Stage manager Rudi Bovy | Sound creation Guillaume Istace | Staging and movement Sophie Leso | Costume creation Camille Collin | Accessories and scenography assistant Chloé Jacqmotte | Seamstress Cinzia Derom | Construction Didier Rodot | Construction and decoration assistance Sophie Hazebrouck, Adrian Pellegrin, Aurélien Gobeaux, Franck Crabbé in collaboration with the workshops of the Théâtre de la Balsamine | Illusion Tim Oelbrandt | Prosthetists Florence Thonet, Anne Van Nyen | Céline Bernard sound effects | Baby voice Nikita Jonet | Technical direction and lighting management Hugues Girard / Nicolas Thill | Sound manager Jérémy Michel | General assistantship Sophie Jallet | photos Alice Piemme / AML | Development and distribution BLOOM Project/ Claire Alex
You don't hear a thing. You do not see that only one man must die for the people and that the whole nation does not perish.
John: 11, 47-53
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A scorching summer night. The air is moist, almost unbreathable. An isolated gas pump in the middle of nowhere. In his shop, alone, Roland cleans. Suddenly, a group of tourists and their tour manager, Rosa, arrive. Broken down a few kilometers away, exhausted by the heat, exhausted by their trip and tense by a failed start to their vacation, they are on edge.
Cut off from the world, without a network, Rosa tries in vain to reach the roadside assistance. All of this could very well end… except that, the only phone, their only way out, disappears without a trace.
Hostilities begin between a suspicious Roland, a mysterious helmeted biker, a mother exhausted by her crying child, a tipsy young driver and a group of angry tourists.
Someone is going to have to pay for the others… The group will point out its culprit!
But who ?
Through a chaotic situation, NO ONE stages the tension between the individual and the group. And questions the dilution of responsibility and the designation of a scapegoat within the crowd.
Production Company STILL LIFE | Co-production Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Tournai cultural center / creation house and La Coop asbl | Associate production Théâtre Les Tanneurs | With the support of the Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation - theater service, Shelterprod, Taxshelter.be, ING, Tax-Shelter of the Belgian federal government | With the participation of the Center for Performing Arts | With the help of the SACD, the Ad Libitum residence, the Théâtre de l'Ancre - Coup de Pouce residence, 140, the Huy Cultural Center and the Infini Théâtre.
Acknowledgments Vincent Hennebicq and Émilie Jonet
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Best Direction award for the 2020 Maeterlinck Critics' Awards
The STILL LIFE company is an associate artist at the Théâtre Les Tanneurs.