This is the portrait of a human being, master of all he surveys, both as familiar and strange as the neighbour we meet every day, the story of the mishaps of a slightly schizophrenic madcap pent up in a tower with all manner of phantasmagorical animals. Among others we will find a giant fish, a metal beetle, a dying jellyfish, with whom Raoul has dealings based on familiarity and authority. Suddenly, although he never asked, somebody comes to release him. Who then? It has to be he himself, since he is alone in the world, in his world. We know and love James Thierrée as acrobat, trapezist, violinist, struggling against the madness of elements and objects, colliding with his fellow human beings. Now for the first time, he is on his own, embodying a theatrical character with an identity or at least with a name. However he has not come to the point where he needs words in a written or spoken text. “Rather than a new mode of expression I am exploring the links with my previous productions, which, in a way, Raoul condensates. This individual allows me to investigate my own ‘language’.” Well then, everything is fine. James is not Raoul who is not James. James remains himself, an Ariel cum poet and magician. After spending his childhood in his parents’ circus, James Thiérrée studied drama and occasionally appeared in cinema productions. In 1998, he founded his Compagnie des Hannetons [The May Bugs’ Company] and since then La Symphonie du Hanneton [The May Bug’s Symphony], La Veillée des Abysses [The Wake near the Abyss] and Au revoir parapluie [Goodbye Umbrella] have been travelling the whole world.
Colette Godard
director, stage set and interprétation James Thierrée
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