Si demain vous déplaît ...
Si demain vous déplaît... is a sensitive creation which is trying in the first part, which we call a “silent comedy”, to fix the real with the naked eye, exploring everything that creates obstacles in our lives. Then in the second part, which we call a “musical tragedy”, it tries to offer a place of escape and the exploring of energetic and visual utopias. The performance is designed as a sensitive experience for everyone, actors and audience, reunited in a space divided in two times like the two parts of a brain.
The ambition of the performance will be comparable to Pop? Even though it differs on an artistic level. Si demain vous déplaît…reflects upon time, happiness, utopia.
Why not explore this impulse that is born in our imagination? Not to hide from the world but in order to project us in the future and to learn about our present time, our reflective capacity and ourselves. Would it tell us to react?
In his lectures If you don’t like this world, Philip K. Dick, the science fiction writer, is questioning being human. What is called reality is maybe the world of dreams and it is possible that both worlds are manipulated and modified ad infinitum.
These thoughts were the beginning of Armel’s project; He pre-writed the performance and used it as an impulse for the/his actors, to make suggestions and improvisations.
Nourished by Philip K. Dick, but also by Nietzsche, the life of saints and the theoretical oeuvre from Fredric Jameson, Armel made a list of “persons”, a kind of mirror world of our contemporary mythology. These realistic or invented characters will be confronted with the actors. We will see fragments of a divided world: on one side the” real” world” and on the other the “dreamworld”.
In a white box, cracking and eventually exploding because of the rage of a child, eleven actors explore in an almost mathematical way the visions of happiness that exists in every social-cultural layer of our society. When Pandora’s box is pulverized we will see a heavenly vision and hear the beats from a divine DJ. The scene will deliver all the turbulence that implies a society “happy at any cost”
Si demain vous déplaît…is a “total” performance, where the stage is not something fix, but an open space, moving, mutating, which confronts theatre with dance, the personal with the universal.
Armel would also like to push his research of the connection between the actor, the character and the spectator further: the actors will work with the instant of the moment of the representation, as well as they can cut themselves off from the frontal contact with the audience and invent themselves a “fourth wall”. With this project, Armel wishes to touch the immateriality and beauty with a living and delightful theatre where human beings take over the stage to share their reflections and words.