RISING APE

ESPACE JOB, 105 Route de Blagnac

RISING APE is a satirical show about our obsession with productivity. Being productive would be a virtue: efficient, profitable, useful to society. But behind this promise lies another reality — constant pressure, the violence of work on bodies and minds. In contrast, Rising Ape draws on speedrunning, a practice from video games where you finish a game as fast as possible, optimizing every move, bending the rules, exploiting glitches. An absurd race to performance, pushed to the extreme — but collective, joyful. On stage, Cirque r…