Content Warnings: Strobes, smoke, swallowing sounds, and partial nudity.
Against a papier-mâché backdrop, Marlène Charpentié brings to life a strange garden—a fantastical tale that blends theater, clowning, and dance.
Three figures cross paths there without ever speaking to one another: a drag king obsessed with power, a heartbroken vampire diva, and a strange Pierrot, guardian of flowers that wither and are reborn.
Blending absurd humor with a critique of capitalism, this fantastical cabaret creates a fractured space where dreams border on nightmares.
The artist works with the material just as she inhabits the stage: with a vivid, fiery presence. She manipulates, assembles, and repurposes elements of the set right before our eyes, in direct interaction with the audience, without filters or a safe distance. Every gesture engages, every glance captures—and the present moment becomes an unstable, sensitive, intensely shared playground.
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Direction, Acting, and Set Design: Marlène Charpentié
Dramaturgy: Ciel Sourdeau
Sound Design: Sophie Conus
Lighting Design: Jean Sottas
Lighting Operator: Tiago Branquino
Set Design Assistants: Sophie Conus, Michèle Mercier-Bosseny, and Ilana Winderickx Tabarelli
Costume Design: Josiane Martinho
Costume Assistants: Laetitia Longagna
Dental Prosthetics: Kenny Perrier
External Consultants: Emma Saba, Julia Botelho & Délia Krayenbühl
Accessibility: Cassiane C. Pfund
Stage Manager: Antonie Oberson
Co-production: TU - Théâtre de l’Usine (GE) and Arsenic - Centre d’Art Scénique Contemporain (LS)
Production: Compagnie confettis, Arroi, Julie Marmet
Supported by: PREMIO—Encouragement Award for the Performing Arts, Loterie Romande, the Bea Foundation for Young Artists, and SIS—Swiss Performers’ Foundation
Residencies: Südpol (LU), L’Abri Genève, ADC (GE), Gessnerallee (ZH), Tanzhaus Zürich
Special thanks to: Alessandra Mattana, Guillaume Guilherme, Ulysse Berdat, Maud Reinhart, Charlotte Carteret, Douna Lim, Zoé Aubry, Sophie Négoïta, Miluna Gendre, Laurent Fiorentino, Arsen Aeby, Althéa Stantzos, Flavien Bonelli, and Sophie Fontaine.
