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Circa 1914-18, five men (a Frenchman, an Italian, a Scotsman and a Senegalese) share their day-to-day in a trench - the only differentiating characteristic between them? Each one's dirty, mud encrusted uniform. At their side lives a woman, symbolising the loss of happiness.
Unable to escape the improbable idiosyncrasies of life in the trenches, the five soldiers decide to transform the terrible reality into a tragicomic parody because, despite the unavoidable fate that awaits them in the near future, the present invites them to live.
In A Tragédia é o melhor Pedaço do animal, Théâtre de La Mezzanine, well known for their awe-inspiring and extravagant performances, once again demonstrates a very particular talent for the creation of metaphors that carry the public into a highly surprising and complex visual, theatrical and musical universe.
Circa 1914-18, five men (a Frenchman, an Italian, a Scotsman and a Senegalese) share their day-to-day in a trench - the only differentiating characteristic between them? Each one's dirty, mud encrusted uniform. At their side lives a woman, symbolising the loss of happiness.
Unable to escape the improbable idiosyncrasies of life in the trenches, the five soldiers decide to transform the terrible reality into a tragicomic parody because, despite the unavoidable fate that awaits them in the near future, the present invites them to live.
In A Tragédia é o melhor Pedaço do animal, Théâtre de La Mezzanine, well known for their awe-inspiring and extravagant performances, once again demonstrates a very particular talent for the creation of metaphors that carry the public into a highly surprising and complex visual, theatrical and musical universe.
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Artistic director and playwright Denis ChabroulletSet design Michel Lagarde and Denis ChabroulletMusic composer Roselyne Bonnet des TuvesWith Benjamin Clée, Laurent Marconnet, Erwan Picquet, Sylvestre Vergez, Julien Verrié, Clémence SchreiberAssistant Cécile MaquetLighting design Jérôme BuetSet construction, props and puppets Thierry Grasset and Pauline Lefeuvre