Clown, Magie Nouvelle
Tout Public
Black Box (Theaters or chapiteaux)
The Barnard LoOp is a non spoken show for all ages, designed for black boxes and/or chapiteaux.
The show explores the nonsense of our lives by mixing surrealistic theater, magic, and clown. We are taken by a charming character on a sleepless night where the lines between reality and illusion blur.
A moka that serves coffee without ever stopping, a plant that comes to life to comfort us, a bed where the most disparate objects appear.
Who better than a clown to dream without stopping?
photo : Marco Bergonzi (Raw Sight Production)
Dreams have been my favorite escape for years, and I would have liked to exchange them for reality. Dreams are the ideal place where anything can happen and where everything appears perfectly coherent even though time flows in an unusual way, matter is changeable, spaces are infinite, dimensions are random, and human abilities are improbable… It is in this space that desires, obsessions, anxieties, and fears are allowed to express themselves. Dreams are perfect containers for magical, surreal, and surprising stories. They are a living, theatrical material that can be played with over and over again.
So how can we transport the audience into a dreamlike dimension?
The show is structured like a set of Chinese boxes, giving the impression that creation through dreams is a potentially infinite process. The challenge is to start from a consent illusion and then gradually take the audience into another dimension, the intimate and all-absorbing dimension of our imagination. A space where mystery and wonder can live again.
Alessandra Ventrella
directed by Alessandra Ventrella
written by Alessandra Ventrella, Rocco Manfredi
with Jacopo Maria Bianchini, Rocco Manfredi
sound Dario Andreoli
scenography Paolo Romanini, Rocco Manfredi
light design Alessandra Ventrella
logistical support Cie Les Karnavires
a special thanks to Francesco Napoli
thanks to
Émilie Rault, AragoRn Boulanger, Luis Carr, Amandine Buixeda, Julien Lemmonier,
Mathilde Letteron, Giulia Guiducci , Emiliano Curà, Dorothée Henon
Production DispensaBarzotti
Coproduction Teatro Necessario Circo – Centro di produzione di circo contemporaneo, Parma
Production support Marseille’s municipality – “action spectacle vivant” program / Theatre Laboratory Sfumato, Sofia / Teatro delle Briciole – Solares Fondazione delle Arti, Parma / Officine CAOS – Torino / Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro)
Artistic residencies Carrozzerie | n.o.t, Roma / Ville de Billom (63) / FAP – Fondazione Aurelio Petroni San Cipriano Picentino / Théâtre de Cuisine – Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille / Le CIAM – Centre International des Arts en Mouvement, Aix-en-Provence / Ax-Animation, Ax Les Thermes / Pôle Jeune Public, Le Revest Les Eaux / Archaos, Pôle National Cirque, Marseille / Circuito CLAPS, Brescia / Les Karnavires, Mimet
Production Awards
“Odiolestate 2018”, Carrozzerie | n.o.t, Roma
Special mention to “Tendenza Clown Festival 2019”, Milano
Finalist show to In Box Blu Festival 2024
Official selection “L’Italia dei Visionari 2024” – Kilowatt Festival
The show was part of UNTERNEHMEN dans la culture 2021, a support program for young cultural enterprises organized by the French Ministry of Culture, Relais Culture Europe and the Institut français d’Allemagne.
photo : Marco Bergonzi (Raw Sight Production)