Horizons. In a no man’s land that resembles a kind of purgatory, three characters — Ben, Dom, and Max — stand before an inscrutable horizon, unable to grasp where they are or even who they are. Have they survived a plane crash, fallen into a coma, or are they drifting through space at the edge of a black hole? Through dialogues mixing absurdity, dark humour, and cosmic vertigo, they explore the limits of consciousness, language, and memory.
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.
Déjà vu. Two strangers — a man and a woman who seem to have never met — encounter each other on the terrace of a luxury Swiss hotel, each awaiting their own scheduled assisted suicide the next morning. What begins as a hesitant flirtation quickly takes an unexpected turn. In the second scene, both characters are propelled into a parallel, dystopian world: they reappear inside the modest living room of an outdated, utterly ordinary couple they are apparently meant to replace.
What remains of love, of identity, of self — when memory has been erased?
