The battlefield
Recommended age: from 14 years
"The trouble with children is that they grow up. One fine morning, without warning, they put on trainings, respond with onomatopoeias and listen to bad music […] It costs a fortune in anti-button cream, it changes the mood every six minutes, it has the nose growing. It drags from the couch to the bed by putting a point of honor in reminding you that you are absolutely not up to your role as a father. It poisons you. It hates you. It’s cruel when a child grows up. To top it all, once you’re over the five-foot mark, you’re no longer God in person. And you have to take it!”
The runaway quarantine, that’s what this father says, locked in the toilet, ultimate inviolable fortress. There, he consults travel leaflets in order to escape for good the weight of everyday life, between an older son in full adolescence and a couple crisis."
After training in dramatic interpretation at INSAS (Brussels) in 1999, Denis Laujol turned to directing. Thierry Hellin has performed in more than 80 shows created in the French Community of Belgium. The Best Actor Award was awarded by the Critics' Awards 2014/15 for his role in Guy Cassiers' Passions humaines. Journalist and novelist, Jérôme Colin presents on radio the cultural program Enter without knocking (La Première – RTBF) and on television the program Hep Taxi.