Chronicles of an Ordinary Family

MPAA/Saint-Germain - Maison des Pratiques Artistiques Amateurs, 4 rue Félibien

It's Christmas, a plain family gathering, but a slight dissonance hits us. Christmas: the grandfather loses his grip, the daughter is pregnant by a stranger, the mother overcooks the turkey and the father has indigestion. A banal family celebration, but something is off: we remove the bulbs to save electricity and the world seems to turn differently. In Chronicles of an Ordinary Family, taken from Martin Crimp's In the Republic of Happiness, the company Sur un air de explores a society gnawed by capitalism and individualism. Maison des Pratiques Artistiques Amateurs La…