An adaptation of Boris Vian's famous jazz novel for a live actor moving through 20 visual, sound and digital tableaux.
Colin is a well-to-do young man who loves jazz and love, and hates violence and work. Inflated with love, he lives in a world that he imagines, in which his strong emotions upset the laws of physics.
An adaptation of Boris Vian's famous jazz novel for a live actor moving through 20 visual, sound and digital tableaux.
Colin is a well-to-do young man who loves jazz and love, and hates violence and work. Inflated with love, he lives in a world he imagines, in which his strong emotions upset the laws of physics.
A thousand omens accumulate and lead Colin to Chloé. He finds true love. But Chloé falls ill. Soon, the windows refuse to let in any light, Colin's radiant world becomes gloomy, time speeds up, his actions are rushed, his increasingly violent failures are less and less reversible, his space shrinks and becomes uninhabitable, and the room takes on the appearance of an oozing, swampy sphere... A long decline begins, and the spectator watches helplessly as an entire world sinks.
This is an imaginative fantasy in which the perceptions and intuition of the individual are essential, as is his or her ability to spot anomalies, analyse them and interpret them in the light of his or her own history... The set design is imagined as an interactive stage. The challenge is to bring the character's subjective vision to life on stage and to show how his world is altered by his emotions. It is perhaps less a question here of an exhaustive adaptation of the novel, but rather an anchor point for a piece of writing centred on the transformation of the world in real time through Colin's eyes, shot through with his desires, his doubts, his fears, his history...
