Mother-f

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Stage design for Les Imprévus at Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo based on Mamma Roma by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Choreography by Bruno Roque, stage design by Sophie Blet, Maxime Decouard, Gaël Rosticher

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2016

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A woman, two lifes, one son.

 

The mother, doomed to the night, with her cigaretts and her high heels, in these dark places where men in suits wander. Men she endures, men she replaces by another one, younger, in a white tank top, his face cursed.

Men again, she would like to conjugate in the past in order to make room for the son in the present, but the son has past, far underground and the customers await with crossed arms.

 

On stage, a floor on which there is a low wall. The men await, back to the wall, on the wooden floor the mother would have liked a home rather than just a hooker's sidewalk...

Not far, a basement window glances at the sky. Light escapes from the cold metal grill, holding the lifeless son.

Above him, his mother dances between the men's hands, while behind pass dust's landscapes, those hopes collapsing in the exterior of crual cities...

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