Intent note

Caoutchouc (Rubber) is a young audience show (6-11 years old) that invites a sensory and visual journey into a strange world, entirely made of plastic, recycled materials and everyday objects. Without words, the show targets emotions and imagination through dance, music and image.
This initiatory tale is inspired by the pattern of passing rites: a world in harmony is suddenly shaken by an ecological catastrophe. Characters — a musician-magician, a singer-contreuse and a dancer-frondeuse — then undergo a test of loss and transformation. Their sinking in a sea of plastic becomes the occasion of a metamorphosis: from the debris they invent a new world.

Plastic is a symbol of both destruction and reconstruction. He questions our relationship to objects and the environment, but also the resilience that arises in times of crisis. This fragile and artificial world is paradoxically becoming the place of a rebirth, a promise of hope and collective reinvention.

Through a dreamlike scenic language, Caoutchouc (Rubber) questions the fragility and beauty of the world, the transformation and resilience, but also our own contemporary rituals: daily gestures, consumption, objects we use and to which we value. Reversing the rules, diverting objects, giving them a soul: all these strange rituals that open a poetic reflection on how we live and look.