17th May 2023 | 16:00 | Wednesday – Veszprém, Kossuth street
Accompanying Program – FREE
Freely inspired by the myth of Sisyphus, we have imagined a strange puppet figure who will embark on an absurd and repetitive quest, within an environment unsuited to his approach in order to create a slight disturbance. An image with a free interpretation that blurs the tracks of understanding, but will create a blank, a pause, a disturbance of meaning in a daily crowd movement.
The main scenographic object of Sisypholia is a giant ball of clothes that is rolled down a shopping street or shopping mall by an everyday Sisyphus, who looks like everyone else.
Our Sisyphus will roll this giant ball of clothes down one or more streets, until he reaches a point where the ball returns to the starting point. Sisyphus, fully aware of the absurdity of his effort, will start the same task again and again, without hope or intention of transcendence, with discipline and vitality. And just like Camus’ Sisyphus, he is happy to accept this reality, in a perfectly absurd way.
Interpretation: Dorian Chavez
Director: Natacha Belova and Dorian Chavez
Outside eye: Nicole Mossoux and Tita Iacobelli
Design of the ball: Natacha Belova
Realization of the ball: Nathalie Trouve, Atelier Théâtre de la Cité
Production: IFO asbl
Coproduction: Biennale Internationale des Arts Vivants Toulouse Occitanie, Théâtre de la Cité, Usine, Arto, Marionnettissimo, Théâtre National de Bruxelles, Festival Namur en mai
Collaboration with achACT – Actions Consommateurs Travailleurs
Duration: 60 minutes