La Parabole du Seum

Faced with the torments of our age, Rébecca Chaillon imagines an astrological fable that crosses science fiction, secular rituals and the politics of the body. An attempt at survival that brings together on stage an unconventional community of artists to invent, through fiction and imagination, new strategies of resistance.

Associate artist at the TPM, where she has already presented several of her plays, author, performer and director Rébecca Chaillon returns with her performative theatre, in which bodies that defy diktats become narratives and forces for transformation.

In La Parabole du Seum, the sky is at once the place from which catastrophes fall – hurricanes, floods, so-called "natural" disasters – that always reveal the same fault lines, and the new territories of Western imperialism.

But if the sky is saturated and fragmented, what space remains for projecting our beliefs and hopes? Neither a programme nor consolation, the play composes a funny and fierce parable to let the soul breathe, in which imagination and humour become acts of resistance.