Eight people stand in front of a stony wall and peer into a huge, grey-white egg with a hole at the bottom. The people have a microphone with which they are probing the egg.

Theatre

Philippe Quesne / Vivarium Studio

Der Garten der Lüste

Tickets:

44/36/24/14 Euro (erm. ab 9 Euro, [k]-Karte ab 7 Euro)

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Saturday

1/27/24

8:00 PM

ca. 105 Min.

For his new large-scale theatre creation, which marks the twentieth anniversary of his company Vivarium Studio, Philippe Quesne has been inspired by the equally famous and enigmatic triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, the "Garden of Delights". The 15th century painter's fantastic allegories describe the radical upheaval of traditional, technical and political standards in a time of transition. The director gathers a team of actors, musicians and technicians who are ready to undertake a similar journey through time and into the present. In a place they find abandoned, they organise themselves in their own way as a community, using the things they find here and drawing on their own experiences, the memory of the place and the theatre.

Three people carry a huge white egg across a foggy stage. On the right is a white bus with an open door.

Seven people stand and sit in front of a light blue bus, lit from the right and casting long shadows. One is playing the cello, another is balancing a plastic chair on his nose, and one is reading from a book at the front.

A person with a headset holds a microphone pole to a small pile of stones on the ground. In front of him stands a person in a beige full-body suit with muscles painted on it. To his right is a huge, white, dirty egg.

A white bus stands on a green-lit stage. A canvas with a landscape printed on it hangs in the background. One person is standing on the bus, one next to it. There are chairs and suitcases in the foreground.

In a white bus with one side open like a peep box, a person in a red full-body suit stands and dances with outstretched arms next to fireworks. Four people are sitting and standing in front of it. One of them is sitting on the bus holding a satellite dish

Five people are running wildly around in a circle on a sandy floor. One is wearing a long dark red dress, one a tight black suit, another a beige robe, one at the back in jeans and a shirt and one in a beige full-body suit.

Three people are involved in a wild scuffle on the floor. In the background, someone is standing in front of a giant egg and watching the scuffle. On the left, someone is watching from a white bus and holding a guitar.

Eight people walk in a circle around a giant white egg. Some play the flute, one plays the guitar. The floor is dirty, as is the egg.

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With: Philippe Quesne, Vivarium Studio

Conception, staging and scenography Philippe Quesne Created with and performed by Jean-Charles Dumay, Léo Gobin, Sébastien Jacobs, Elina Löwensohn, Nuno Lucas, Isabelle Prim, Thierry Raynaud, Gaëtan Vourc’h Original texts Laura Vazquez Costumes, Sculptures Karine Marques Ferreira Collaboration on scenography Élodie Dauguet Dramaturgy Éric Vautrin Assistant François-Xavier Rouyer Technical collaboration Marc Chevillon Sound Janyves Coïc Lighting Jean-Baptiste Boutte Video Matthias Schnyder Props Mathieu Dorsaz Stage management François Boulet, Martine Staerk Stage technician Ewan Guichard Lighting technician Cassandre Colliard Dressing Estelle Boul, Cécile Delanoë Set build Ateliers du Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne Production and booking Judith Martin, Elizabeth Gay Production Vivarium Studio Charlotte Kaminski Production Vivarium Studio, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne

Coproduction by Festival d’Avignon, Ruhrtriennale (DE), Athens Epidaurus Festival (GR), Tangente St. Pölten, Festival für Gegenwartskultur (AT), Berliner Festspiele (DE), Théâtre du Nord, Centre Dramatique National Lille Tourcoing Hauts-de-France, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Pôle européen de création et de production, Les 2 Scènes, Scène nationale de Besançon, Centro dramatico nacional (Madrid, ES), MC93, Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis Bobigny, Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg, Scène européenne, Kampnagel (Hamburg, DE), Festival NEXT, Scène nationale Carré-Colonnes Bordeaux-Métropole, National Theater and Concert Hall Taipei (TW).

Sponsored by Claussen-Simon-Stiftung.

Supported by ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius as part of the ZEIT FÜR WELTTHEATER series.

Philippe Quesne / Vivarium Studio

Der Garten der Lüste

Past dates

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