Show designed for touring, and possible in a black box theater
It is a stationary chariot, a fictional installation that can be placed and moved outside the walls of theaters, inside unequipped rooms, outdoors in courtyards, deep in the woods, in the middle of fields, or at the foot of monuments… Born from the encounter between author Pauline Peyrade, circus artist Justine Berthillot, and set designer James Brandily, Carrosse is inspired by a Nordic tale entitled Peau de Phoque (Seal Skin), which explores the links between motherhood and depression.
The play explores a female figure who has become a contemporary archetype, that of the depressed mother, the woman who never leaves her bed, overwhelms herself and swallows pills. She is a prisoner of her carriage, that is to say, of herself, of the role assigned to her by the world, her function as a mother. The show immerses us in her daily life and that of her teenage child, between realism and fantasy, between power struggles and complicity, at the crossroads of words and movement.
