CLOWN, MAGIE NOUVELLE

Tout public (from 6 years and up)

Theater (black box)

directed by Alessandra Ventrella
written by Alessandra Ventrella, Rocco Manfredi
with Jacopo Maria Bianchini, Rocco Manfredi

sound design Dario Andreoli
stage design 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

Through the art of magic and clown, the show tells the story of a young character’s surreal sleepless night: Barnard. But the worst thing is not so much not sleeping as not being able to tell if he’s living a dream or reality!

But whether he’s asleep or awake, Barnard must confront his own inner world, seeking some kind of balance in the incoherence of his emotions and actions.

The magic to tell a dream,
everyday objects that come alive to bring our imagination to life,
The pot of a plant that comes to life and takes our comfort,
a bed in which the most different objects constantly appear,
Humor to navigate our own inner life.

THE BARNARD LOOP IS A NON SPOKEN SHOW OF MAGIE NOUVELLE.

A wordless performance, as precise as it is burlesque, that takes us straight to the Kafkaesque.

A fairy tale, almost a cartoon, a dream that cannot be told without the language of stage magic. A celebration of the mysterious, the unpredictable and the unsettling. A dreamlike journey through psychic and mental states, where strange creatures appear and the laws of physics no longer apply, leading us into a never-ending illusion.