Stage production

Sous le plancher

3 years and up
35 minutes

‘The boredom of my childhood afternoons was a journey where time belonged to me, a space where I created immense dreams, a world without beginning or end, like a sentence that ends with three dots…’

Gaël Faye, L’ennui des après-midi sans fin

At the beginning of the show, there is… nothing!
By following three characters as they make their discoveries, each member of the audience is invited to marvel.
From scattered objects — seemingly left there by chance — the characters shape surprising and poetic images.
It is by lifting the trapdoor that the marvellous unfolds, just as faceted crystal has the ability to open up space and diffract light, offering a field of reverie unique to each individual.

© photos : Nicolas Guillemot

Press

Wonderful things can happen out of nothing. A show to re-enchant boredom and restore daydreaming to its full creative power.
Françoise Sabatier-Morel, Télérama

A show about boredom which, instead of boring us, opens the door to our imagination and carries us away. Like a child playing, building a world where everything is ultimately connected, we forget that we are in the theatre.
L’œil d’Olivier

Concept and direction: Bénédicte Guichardon
Dramaturgy: Morgane Lory
Set design: Odile Stemmelin
Construction: Cédric Perraudeau
Props: Bénédicte Guichardon and Odile Stemmelin
Costumes: Louise Cariou
Lighting: Bryan Jean-Baptiste
Performers: alternating between Daniel Collados, Laurette Tessier, Olmo Hidalgo, Amandine Doistau
Music: Christine Moreau
Stage manager: Christophe Troeira or Emeric Teste

Production: Le bel après-minuit
Co-production: Les Tréteaux de France National Drama Centre – Aubervilliers, Théâtre André Malraux – Chevilly-Larue, Théâtre Jacques Carat – Cachan
With the support of: the Ile-de-France Region, the Val de Marne Department, the DRAC Ile-de-France
With the assistance of: ECAM – Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Théâtre Jean Arp – Clamart, Théâtre Antoine Watteau – Nogent-sur-Marne, Le Sax – Achères, Les Tréteaux de France – Aubervilliers

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