WE DO NOT SPEAK WITH MITTENS

Pôle culturel du Grand Turc, Salle Gérard Philipe, 8 rue Saint-Denis

ON SPEAKS NOT WITH MITTENS is a burlesque tale, the tragic epic of a hearing person and a deaf person stuck in a broken elevator. One does not hear, the other does not sign. To understand each other, they can rely on a common feeling: choreography! Anthony Guyon, a deaf actor and Denis Plassard, a talkative dancer, offer a testimony, the epic account of a first meeting. They narrate to us, with powerful words, signs, and movements, how they met inside a modern but air‑less elevator; an elevator equipped with a screen that diffusa…