Faire troupeau

Marion Thomas CH FR
  • 21h
  • 21h
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  • Duration 1h30
  • Récits du futur°
  • Recommended age 10+ (good reading skills required)
  • In French
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Salle Communale
Rue des Marchandises 4
Nyon

  • Accessible to people with reduced mobility
Fri 8.08: Relax performance.

Faire troupeau (“Herding Together”) invites audiences to take part in an immersive experience by becoming a herd of sheep on a transhumance journey*. Attacked by a pack of wolves along the way, the flock survives thanks to its social intelligence and collective solidarity. With a generous dose of humour and playful nods to pop culture, Marion Thomas playfully reclaims the often-dismissed image of the sheep to explore themes of cooperation and community living. Blending scientific investigation, apocalyptic storytelling and personal narrative, Faire troupeau questions our ability to come together and protect one another in times of crisis. A joyful invitation to think of empathy as a powerful force for political resistance.
*Transhumance: the seasonal migration of animals between summer and winter pastures.

Description in FALC

Bibliographic references

  • Porcher Jocelyne, Despret Vinciane (2007), Être bête, Paris: Actes Sud;
  • Quarantelli Enrico Louis (2000), Emergencies, disasters and catastrophes are different phenomena, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware;
  • Tierney Kathleen (2019), Disasters: A Sociological Approach, polity;
  • Tierney Kathleen (2014), The social Roots of Risk, Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience, Stanford University Press

 

  • Marion Thomas is in a barn. She is surrounded by black and white sheep. Only the upper part of her body is visible. Her arms are resting on the sheep. She is wearing sunglasses.
    ©Maxime Devige
  • Marion Thomas is standing in a field. She is facing away. She is wearing a shirt and shorts. She is looking at some sheep. The sheep have gone into the bushes.
    ©Maxime Devige

writing, direction, performance Marion Thomas artistic collaboration, sound design Maxime Devige lighting design Adrien Jounier production Aymeric Demay scenography Clémentine Dercq outside perspectives Zoé Sian Gouin, Marie Ripoll writing collaboration Lucile Carré coproduction far° Nyon (Récits du futur 2023), TU-Nantes (FR) support Théâtre du Champ de Bataille – Angers (FR), Bain Public – Saint-Nazaire (FR), TNG – Lyon (FR), La Libre Usine – Nantes (FR), Le Grütli – Centre for Performing Arts – Geneva, Le Carreau du Temple – Paris (FR), Point Éphémère – Paris (FR), La Grange – Centre / Arts and Sciences / UNIL, Centre for Sustainability Competence – UNIL

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