Live Arts production office
Direction and staging Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola
Performance Muriel Legrand, Sophie Leso, Sophie Linsmaux, and Aurelio Mergola General assistance Sophie Jallet Set design Aurélie Deloche, Nicolas Olivier, and Noémie Vanheste
Props Noémie Vanheste Costumes Camille Collin and Cinzia Derom Stage and movement direction Sophie Leso Script Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola, and Thomas van Zuylen
Sound design Maxime Pichon Lighting design Guillaume Toussaint-Fromentin Prosthetics, masks and manipulated objects Joachim Jannin, Jean-Raymond Brassine, and Juliette Tracewski General stage management Nicolas Olivier Stage management Charlotte Persoons (alternating with Ondine Delaunois) Sound management Hubert Monroy Lighting management Margaux Fontaine Constructions Rudi Bovy, Charlotte Persoons, Manon Vanheste, and Noémie Vanheste Make-up & hair styling Mélissa Roussaux & Gaëtan d'Agostino
Thanks to the interns Sarah Brunori, Calista Huisman, Annabelle Kihoulou, and Alexandre Moxhet Special thanks to Yves Marez, Nicolas Persoons, and Ateliers Zinneke Teaser production Maxime Jennes Teaser footage Maxime Jennes and Hubert Amiel Teaser stunts Felipe Salas Photography Alice Piemme – Archives et Musée de la Littérature Administration and production Marion Couturier Development, communication, and tour manager (FR) BLOOM Project – Stéphanie Barboteau
Tour manager (non-French-speaking territories) Aurora Nova – Carolina Ortega
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Production Compagnie Still Life Co-production Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Centre culturel de l’Arrondissement de Huy, Les Célestins – Théâtre de Lyon, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – Scène nationale, La Coop asbl, and Shelter Prod Executive production Théâtre Les Tanneurs With the help of Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – service du théâtre, taxshelter.be, ING et du Tax Shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge With the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse and Wallonie-Bruxelles International
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The Still Life company is a partner artist of Théâtre Les Tanneurs
In a forest threatened with extinction, humans persist in enjoying themselves: pleasure, fun, blinders too. But until when? Stuck in their distress, how can they avoid sinking into the abyss? And above all, what can we hold on to, to stay alive in spite of it all?
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From an attempt to reintroduce a wild animal to a shower of dead birds crashing to the ground, from a nature reconnecting workshop to the disappearance of the last tree on earth, TIMBER is a visual and non-verbal show, a contemporary fable dissecting our link to the living.
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The world is in crisis — but Still Life somehow brings magic to it nonetheless.
L'Echo | Eric Russon
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In a world where everything seems to be going wrong, Timber offers its own solution—a response filled with dreamlike imagery, fiction, and breathtaking visuals. The power of life strikes us visually in a technically rigorous performance that exposes the complexity of our relationship with the world.
RTBF | Louis Thiébaut
PAST DATES
11→22/03/2025
*Creation* Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (Be)
24/02→10/03/2025
Residence Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (Be)
27/01→22/02/2025
Residence
16/09→18/10/2024
Residence