Les Brigittines

Inspired by Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, the performance immerses us in a complex “tableau vivant” in a post-apocalyptic universe where people struggle and come together.

Cartloads of bodies intertwined in unlikely piles follow heaves where the floor slips away... We are gripped by a strong physicality embedded in a powerful imagery. The magnetic appeal that electrifies the stage produces a fascination that endures from start to finish through a series of startling images.

Combining a powerful vocabulary and a perfect understanding of the ensembles, Alan Lake, whom we are delighted to welcome to Europe for the first time, navigates between suggestion and reality without being able to determine its limits and contours.