Lexikon

Lexikon As part of the Festival d’Automne Performance in Spanish, surtitled in French “Our head is a big dictionary […].”

Lexikon

As part of the Festival d’Automne

Performance in Spanish, surtitled in French

“Our head is a big dictionary […]. Our mouth is the wound through which they emerge.” (Lexikon, tale II)

After La luz de un lago and its four love stories, El Conde de Torrefiel returns to the Odéon with a new collection of stories. Lexikon is a book of tales. Seven tales for the future, intended for humans who speak and listen. Seven attempts to unravel the enigma of words – those that connect us as much as those that divide us. A woman spies from her window on a group of artists and tries to decipher their code; an academician prepares for his inaugural speech; an editor drives home at night on the motorway; a naked performer awaits his audience in a castle in Kassel, Germany; in Cannes, a film without images is about to be screened; two voices begin a conversation that will traverse time; and a final story that no one will come to tell. With their backs to the audience, five performers-narrators take turns watching the empty stage space become the echo chamber for seven narratives about the contemporary world. Soliciting the spectator's imagination, called upon to fill the gaps in the representation, the Catalan company organises a tense dialogue between speech and image, and deploys a whole plastic and scenic vocabulary to deconstruct theatrical conventions: choreographic actions, video projections, puppetry, performance, installation, robotic elements. With Lexikon, Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert continue their search for a theatre of anticipation, capable of outwitting the traps of communication.

Directors: Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert

Cast: El Conde de Torrefiel - Amalia Fernández, Mauro Molina, Carmen Collado, Ion Iraizoz, Tanya Beyeler

Contemporary theatre

From 14 years old

Show duration: 2h15 without intermission. Access for people with reduced mobility: 01 44 85 40 40