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Catabase: A feminine noun derived from the ancient Greek katábasis, meaning "descent," refers to the action of descending and is a recurring motif in ancient epics, especially Greek ones, dealing with a character’s journey into the underworld, the realm of the dead.

Proz, récit d'une catabase is a multimedia stage form combining Theatre, Video, and Sound, offering an immersive journey into the inner world of a grieving woman.
The project is inspired by mythological, historical, and intimate narratives to explore this journey both geographically and personally.
The staging, which combines poetic images, videos, and sound, offers a reflection on loss, mourning, but also on history, stories, and transformations—metamorphoses.
Maud Peyrache weaves the retrospective narrative of a personal adventure with universal resonance.
The singular hybrid stage writing merges different registers of texts, sounds, images, and documents through a multimedia set design that carries emotion from beginning to end. This original setup creates a space where the invisible and the tangible meet, and where the layers respond to and enrich each other.
The audience is invited to enter this universe to hear, see, and merge their feelings and personal stories, in ways and to degrees that remain under their control.
This immersive experience is made possible by the work of the various artists who contributed to it: Yohann Jardinet delivers a nuanced and surprising sound composition, ranging from minimalism to contemporary pop; Ramataupia creates immersive images that work through crossovers and montages; and the lights sculpted by Emanuel Jarousse bind the whole and set the rhythm of the narration, while helping to shape the playing space.

Scenography - Video
A video scenography device is at the center of the stage: strips of transparent fabric are suspended on which photographs and videos are mapped.
The images of the show are from a research residency in Naples conducted by Maud in June 2023, supported by the Institut Français. She collected photos and videos of the places, statues, colors, streets, graffiti, and mythologies of Naples during her stay there.
Moving tableaux are triggered live and accompany the narrator’s story.