For theater or under a big top
Acting area :12x14x9m
14 artists + 3 live musicians + 3 technicians
Audience : For the general public
Descending
from his Olympus, Homer remarks that war is still the driving force behind
human activity, be it for money, for the conquest of new lands or purely and
simply for love.
The only thing we can say is that he won't be disappointed with his descent,
more like a descent into Hell itself ! Apart from technical advances, man
doesn't seem to have taken a decisive step towards an attitude more pacifist,
or philosophically just.
This show embarks on a voyage leaving little place for optimism regarding
the very foundations of human nature.
About it
It was after being invited to the cultural center of Ansan in South Korea
that Cirque Baroque first presented this show in december 2006.
The Director of the cultural center, Mr Cho, desiring to receive Cirque Baroque
but not being able to present the show "Ningen" because of the then
current anti-japanese feeling of the South Korean Prime Minister, proposed
that we present our precedent show "Troie" (Troy in english).
We did not particularly want to restage this show which was origninally created for the City of Braunschweig (Germany) and which stopped touring in 2002. But as we had long been thinking of taking certain particularly successful images and reussing the mould of the show to create a show less pledged to Troy and its history, but to war in general, we accepted.
Mister Cho embraced the idea with enthusiasm and that is how we ended up reworking the show into a new creation with a part of the rehearsals at home in Villemaréchal and the finalization at the cultural center in Ansan.
Although the starting idea of this adventure has rested with Homer in our modern world three thousand years later, the development leaves room to encompass a more realistic and poetic vision of current conflicts, including Palestine and Irak.
This new show gives us hope of producing a Japanese tour in 2008. A country with which we have privileged relations but where it seems to be very delicate to imagine presenting "Ningen" for political and social reasons that are holding back our project.
So, goodbye
to "Troie", we won't be keeping it in our repertory, and a big welcome
to "La Guerre Baroque" (Baroque war in english) which we very much
hope will meet worldwide with a wide and varied audience.
Conception : Christian Taguet
Music : François Morel with “Le Groupe Baroque”
Master electrician : Serge Bouyer
Master sound : Jean-Pierre Legrand
Cast list :
Michel Arias, Cédric Boularand, Xavier Bouyer, Laurent Coudurier,
Céline Dupuis, Yannick Javaudin, Thierry Joutard, Solange Lima, Laure
Monot, François Morel, Alejandro Nunez-Perez, Eros Pereira-Galvao,
Tanguy Simonneau, Benoît Taguet, Jean-Baptiste Taguet, Julien Van-Stennwinckel
and Vincent Warin.
