Theatre of Operations

Theatre of Operations presents itself like an atmospherical and visual tale. The play stages a subjective study of the different types of confrontations found in civilisation. To the extreme limits of this range, on (...)

Theatre of Operations

Theatre of Operations presents itself like an atmospherical and visual tale. The play stages a subjective study of the different types of confrontations found in civilisation. To the extreme limits of this range, on one side we find war, and on the other harmony. Strange characters appear in a harmonious post-apocalyptical landscape, they are observer-manipulators, some sort of clumsy scientists, survivors of a past time. These scientists are organising a laboratory to experiment on an other community of characters no less strange than themselves. The subjects of analysis are beings who are as much animal, as humain, or robots taken from a childish imaginary tale. Just like in “La Jetée”(“The Pier”) the film by Chris Marker, the subjects are moved around in the scale of time towards the futur, the past, childhood, anticipation… And this in the utopian goal of discovering an initial situation, a supreme mystery, which is that of the mystery of war. The experiment forms as such, an accelerated condensed fictional History of civilisation, with its achievements and its crashes. It balances between poetical drama and the absurd of the discrepancy.

 Produced by compagnie dernière minute, LG Arts Center, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
 Coproduced by Arts 276/Festival Automne en Normandie, Théâtre du Rond-Point, Le Parvis, scène nationale de Tarbes-Pyrénées
 With the support of the Convention City of Toulouse/Institut français, Institut Français of South Korea, LG, Korea Arts Management Service / Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism of Korea

Compagnie dernière minute is subsidised by the Ministry of Culture & Communication/ Préfecture of the region Midi-Pyrénées, Region Midi-Pyrénées and City of Toulouse.

With :
Hwang Ju Do,
Shinae Han,
Hoyeon Kim,
Subeom Kim,
Sungwon Kim,
Yo Seb Kim,
Jesung Lee,
Hyejin Shin,
Bo Ra Wee

Conception, choreography
Pierre Rigal

Music
Julien Lepreux

Lighting design
Frédéric Stoll

Artistic collaborator
Mélanie Chartreux

Costumes designer
Jin Young Ryu

Translator & assistant to Pierre Rigal
Ji-Hyé Jung

Sound and video engineer
George Dyson

Production manager
Sophie Schneider
Assisted by Nathalie Vautrin

Length 70 minutes

Created on 14 September 2012 at the Seoul LG Arts Center

30
performances
since

 

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