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The Octopuses

Show · Friday, December 18 · 20:00 · La Chevrolière

Place Saint-Martin, La Chevrolière

Stuck in the locker rooms of a swimming pool, three bruised teenagers ignite 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. Simon and Ulysses 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 so tight he cannot breathe. One day, Ana appears in their lives. She claims to have an octopus in her head. To carry Sophie Merceron’s strong writing, Guillaum…