A playful and musical exploration of our linguistic usage for young people from 6 to 106.
From 2007 already, the 'Encyclopédie de la parole' (a collective of theatre makers, poets, musicians...founded by Joris Lacoste) registers the most divergent forms of human language usage. From the conductor who urges us on to board the train and the sports reporter who runs through the line-up to the vlogsters who gets all worked up : they all get a second life in their online database ánd on stage.
The performance blablabla focuses on the world of experience of the child. Armelle Dousset, the only actress on stage, makes a chain of all possible sentences children meet on their way : sentences they hear every day, sentences which they take in, repeat, deform, invent.
This gives rise to a myriad of images : only through the power of words, Dousset starts off an enormous imagination both with young and old. It is this very imagination that makes the imaginary world of children possible, a world in which the headmaster can suddenly be Voldemort and their mother Snowwhite
Children have no problems at all yet with the succession of fiction and reality,
of representation and action, and these are the very domains of theatre. Blablabla is a tribute to the power of imagination and wonderment, an inner journey through various landscapes, metamorphoses and surprises. A playful and musical exploration of our language usage for young people from 6 to 106.
Next to blablabla the Encyclopédie de la parole also presents Suite No.3 'Eurovision' at NEXT.
CONCEPT Encyclopédie de la parole DIRECTION Emmanuelle Lafon COMPOSITION Joris Lacoste WITH Armelle Dousset SOUND DESIGN Vladimir Kudryavtse LIGHT DESIGN AND STAGE MANAGEMENT Marianne Pelcerf DIRECTION ASSISTANT Lucie Nicolas MUSICAL AND COMPUTING COLLABORATION Ircam Augustin Muller AUDIO FILES COLLECTION Valérie Louys SOUND RECORDISTS Armelle Dousset, Julie Lacoste, Joris Lacoste, Emmanuelle Lafon, Valérie Louys, Lucie Nicolas, Elise Simonet PRODUCTION Echelle 1:1 (compagnie conventionnée par le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / DRAC Ile-de-France) en partenariat avec Ligne Directe COPRODUCTION Festival d’Automne à Paris, La Villette - Paris, Centre Pompidou Paris - spectacles vivants, T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre dramatique national, Le Volcan, scène nationale du Havre, Théâtre de Lorient, Centre dramatique national, La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, Théâtre L’Aire Libre WITH THE SUPPORT OF l’IRCAM - Centre Pompidou / spectacle accueilli en résidence à la Villette - Paris, au Théâtre Paris Villette / Ce texte est lauréat de la Commission nationale d'Aide à la création de textes dramatiques – Artcena
Joris Lacoste is a European Creative Hub artist (le phénix scène nationale Valenciennes). He belongs to the international cooperation section.
