Stories and Prehistories
Stories and Prehistories. The play blends registers: anthropological farce, social satire and anachronistic dystopia. By transposing contemporary tensions into a fantastical prehistory, Jean-Pierre Martinez creates a comedy of displacement in which the supposedly “primitive” Bohosapiens reveal warmth and clumsy humanity, while the “civilised” Newanderthals embody arrogance, consumerism and polite brutality.

