Mar 15Apr 13, 2022
Zoo (saison 2021-2022)
Vercors, Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota • CREATION / AFTER LES ANIMAUX DÉNATURÉS BY VERCORS
Too human? A work which stirs up our past, questions the present and imagines the future, adapting the famous novel by Vercors.
It all started when the Musée d’Orsay extended an invitation to Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and the Troupe du Théâtre de la Ville. An original work was to be devised for the museum’s exhibition on “The Origins of the World – The Invention of Nature in the 19th Century.” The unusual feature was the idea of including scientific advisers such as the neurosurgeon Carine Karachi and the astrophysicist Jean Audouze, having them involved throughout the process, seeing how the questions raised at a time of uncertainty because of the pandemic may be seen as the first elements escaping from a Pandora’s box of unknown scale.
ZOO tackles questions about humans and animals, in particular as addressed since the mid-19th century and Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The play is an adaptation by Vercors of his own novel Les animaux dénaturés, and tracks down evidence of the famous “missing link.” Debates are held as trials, with many witnesses to be examined and cross-examined. Humanity and humanism are central to the work
BASED ON « ZOO OR THE PHILANTHROPIC MURDERER » AND « UNNATURAL ANIMALS » BY
Vercors
DIRECTED BY
Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR JULIE PEIGNÉ
ARTISTIC COLLABORATION CHRISTOPHE LEMAIRE, FRANÇOIS REGNAULT
SCIENTIFIC ADVISERS CARINE KARACHI (NEUROSURGEON), JEAN AUDOUZE (ASTROPHYSICIST), MARIE-CHRISTINE MAUREL (BIOLOGIST), GEORGES CHAPOUTHIER (BIOLOGIST, PHILOSOPHER)
STAGE DESIGN YVES COLLET, EMMANUEL DEMARCY-MOTA
LIGHTING CHRISTOPHE LEMAIRE, YVES COLLET
MUSIC ARMAN MÉLIÈS
COSTUMES FANNY BROUSTE
SOUND FLAVIEN GAUDON
VIDEO RENAUD RUBIANO
MAKE-UP & HAIR CATHERINE NICOLAS
MASKS ANNE LERAY
ACCESSORIES ERIK JOURDIL
LITERARY ADVISER MURIELLE BECHAME
MOVEMENT COACH CLAIRE RICHARD
WITH THE TROUPE DU THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE
MARIE-FRANCE ALVAREZ, CHARLES-ROGER BOUR, CÉLINE CARRÈRE, JAURIS CASANOVA, VALÉRIE DASHWOOD, ANNE DUVERNEUIL, SARAH KARBASNIKOFF, STÉPHANE KRÄHENBÜHL, LUDOVIC PARFAIT GOMA, GÉRALD MAILLET, MATHIAS ZAKHAR
PRODUCTION Théâtre de la Ville-Paris
COPRODUCTION Musée d’Orsay
Tue 15 Mar 2022
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Wed 16 Mar 2022
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