PARADOXAL

Can we really tell the difference between dreams and reality?

A young journalist suffering from insomnia joins a medical research programme for lucid dreamers. The experiment goes awry.

Following on from *2 SŒURS*, Marien Tillet explores the fragile boundary between fiction and reality in this thriller that undermines the audience’s certainties to sow the seeds of doubt. Scientific clues, a hallucinatory labyrinth, visions of an Irish boarding school… On stage, realities collide amidst a strange ballet of bottles that poses just one question: What do you think you can do against your own subconscious?

Marien Tillet draws on the conventions of traditional storytelling, interwoven with magic, to take us on a much deeper, multi-layered journey…

Cast:
Text, direction and performance: Marien Tillet
Set design and lighting: Samuel Poncet
Sound design: Alban Guillemot
Sound operator: Simon Denis
Set construction: TNP Villeurbanne
Alternate stage manager: Pierre-Alain Vernette

Partners:
La Maison du Conte and the Théâtre A. Malraux in Chevilly-Larue, the Théâtre du Cormier in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, the Espace Sarah Bernhardt in Goussainville, and the Gonesse Cultural Service.

Support: L’Amin Théâtre – Le TAG, Salle des Fêtes Marcel Pagnol in Neuilly-sur-Marne, L’Espace Germinal in Fosses, the Cultural Department of Villiers-le-Bel, Théâtre Le Hublot in Colombes, the Rumeurs Urbaines Festival

Funding: Val-de-Marne Departmental Council – Val-d’Oise Departmental Council – Île-de-France Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC)

The Le Cri de l’Armoire theatre company is funded by the Île-de-France Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC) and the Val-de-Marne Departmental Council.