Reclaiming Mime
LECTURE
14 - 16 Oct
Ockham’s Razor
COLLABORATOR
14 - 16 OctMimeLondon -
supporting contemporary visual theatre
Baro d'evel
QUI SOM / WHO ARE WE?
Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wed 14 > Fri 16 Oct. UK Premiere
Extraordinary circus-theatre for the 21st century.
From award-winning French theatre company Baro d’evel comes this explosion of humour, colour, a dazzling, high-energy collision of dance, theatre, music, and clay. Welcome to a world where acrobats, clowns, musicians, and sculptors conjure a joyful, poetic universe of wonder.
Qui Som (Who are we)? Is a celebration of community and the wild power of dreaming, a waking-dream ceremony which invites you to lose yourself, rediscover yourself, and ask again: Who Are We?
Premiered to acclaim at the 2024 Avignon Festival, the show was met with standing ovations and has since delighted audiences wherever it has played. Now it makes its UK debut.
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Wed - Sat 7.30pm
Runs 2 hours/no interval
Age guidance 8+
Under-12s must be accompanied by an adult at the Southbank Centre
Content warning: contains loud music, flashing lights and nudity.
Presented by the Southbank Centre, in collaboration with MimeLondon
Authors: Camille Decourtye and Blaï Mateu Trias
With Lucia Bocanegra, Noëmie Bouissou, Rita Carmo Martins, Julien Cassier, Camille Decourtye, Alima
Hamel, Dimitri Jourde, Blaï Mateu Trias or Claudio Stellato, Marti Soler, Voleak Ung,
Guillermo Weickert.
Collaboration in directing: Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis / Mal Pelo
Collaboration in dramaturgy: Barbara Métais-Chastanier
Set design and costumes: Lluc Castells
Lighting design: María de la Cámara and Gabriel Paré / Cube.bz
Musical collaboration and sound creation: Fanny Thollot
Musical collaboration and composing: Pierre-François Dufour
Material / colour research: Bonnefrite
Ceramic percussion engineer: Thomas Pachoud
Ceramist: Sébastien De Groot
Technical management: Romuald Simonneau
Accessoirist, Ceramist: Benjamin Porcedda
Stage management: Mathieu Miorin
Lights management: Enzo Giordana
Sound management: Cholé Levoy
Dresser: Alba Viader
Cook: Ricardo Gaiser
Managing director / Promotion: Laurent Ballay
Production administrator: Caroline Mazeaud
Production manager: Pierre Compayré
Administration assistant : Élie Astier
Production: Baro d’evel
“Breathtaking acrobatics and just as many spectacular falls. From the moment the performers appear in their clay-whitened outfits, their faces hidden beneath unfired terracotta pots transformed by their skilful fingers into monstrous heads, all bets are off. Chaos reigns…”
"The members of Baro d’Evel strike a chord with the way they navigate the world’s bewildering chaos. Their responses? Beauty, (bitter) humour... spectacular acrobatics, and show us incredible, Burtonesque, elongated insect-like creatures"
Photos: © Jerome Quadri, Cristophe Raynaud de Lage, Francois Passerini