![]() ![]() Without the clunk and frailty of regular dialogue, other more powerful languages come to the fore – and the production is virtuosic and versatile in them all.īodies blend into snow-covered hamlets, and then then melt away. Words are only heard in mediated forms – like the newscaster reporting a death on a seemingly levitating old TV, or from a van radio playing Paul Simon’s ’50 Ways to Leave Your Lover’. The creators’ great alchemical talent is in obsessively crafting fluidity of form – blending cinema, puppetry, magical objects, Brice Cannavo’s beautifully textured and immersive soundscapes, Guillaume Toussaint Fromentin’s masterful lighting, and Zoé Tenret’s gorgeously detailed sets to carry the enormous freight of their tale. ![]() Julie Tenret, Sicaire Durieux and Sandrine Heyraud are behind this mime-driven tragicomic miracle, and they portray its human characters too. Neither objects nor people behave as they once did. With a deep understanding of the psychology of perception, and with the physicality of graceful, self-mocking clowns, Dimanche is a theatre of transitional forms and enchanting transmogrifications. Eventually, the man vanishes, and other strange creatures of the deep dance in the gloom. We witness – impossibly – the man’s luminous form floating in the darkness, his alarm clock gently bobbing up in the water each time it rings. The kind to make you gasp the kind to make that ‘feeling box’ inside your chest expand outwards with such intensity, it hurts.Īnd, in a subterranean scene that astonishes, there are the tiny fish that nibble at a man asleep at the bottom of the sea. There is the even more foolish family, which performs a comically absurd acceptance of their new chaotic and sweltering norms. There is the polar bear and the flamingo (lovingly brought to realistic life by several puppeteers) – creatures that are equally stubborn in their will to endure, and yet wholly innocent. There is the foolish and intrepid camera crew documenting the melting Arctic, even as it growls like an ancient monster and breaks apart at their feet. With dark humour, heart-grinding pathos and piquantly sublime cross-artform ingenuity, it presents a dystopic story series in which man and animal struggle to adapt to a fast-changing world. Over 75 spellbinding minutes, it delivers its unforgettable offering.Ī collaboration between Company Chaliwaté and Focus, Dimanche has toured several cities before this one, and comes to Sydney directly from the Edinburgh Festival. A clown show and a climate parable in one, with polar bear puppets, malfunctioning stairlifts and huge howling storms – Belgian avant-garde physical theatre show Dimanche has crash-landed at the Playhouse for the Sydney Opera House’s 50th anniversary festival. ![]()
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