The Octopuses

Place du Parlement, Redon

Stuck in the changing rooms of a pool, three battered teenagers set fire to their fears and their loneliness. Based on a text by Sophie Merceron, Guillaume Bariou composes a wild poetry about friendship, imagination and resistance, using drawing and music. Simon and Ulysse are in a center for children “who don’t walk straight.” The first hears the voice of his ghost brother; the second sometimes has a throat tight enough to choke him. One day Ana appears in their lives. She claims to have an octopus in her head. To carry the strong writing of Sophie Merceron, Guillaume Bariou continues…