The Octopuses

27 place Charles de Gaulle, Châteaubriant

Trapped in the changing rooms of a swimming 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, through drawing and music.\n\nSimon and Ulysse are in a center for children “who do not walk straight.” The first hears the voice of his ghost brother; the second sometimes has a throat too tight to breathe. One day Ana appears in their life. She claims to have an octopus in her head. To carry the strong writing of Sophie Merceron, Guillaume…