The Octopuses

2 avenue Anne de Bretagne, Guérande

Stuck·ed in the locker rooms of a swimming pool, three battered teenagers fuel their fears and loneliness. Based on a text by Sophie Merceron, Guillaume Bariou composes a wild poetry about friendship, imagination and resistance through drawing and music. Simon and Ulysses are in a center for children “who do not walk straight.” The first hears the voice of his ghost of a brother; the second sometimes has a throat too tight to breathe. One day Ana appears in their lives. She claims to have an octopus in her head. To carry Sophie Merceron’s strong writing, Guillaume Bariou…