2023-05-04 16:37:36
In “Matricide”, it is our Mother Earth that we assassinate
In the form of a horrific farandole, the Valaisan Catherine Travelletti launches a cry of ecological alarm that the Comédie co-produces.
Exhausted, the burlesque Fiamma Camesi has just hosted a group therapy session in “Matricide”.
LAURA MORIER GENOUD
Immerse yourself in the pictorial universe of Hieronymus Bosch – “Hell” from his “Garden of Earthly Delights” for example. Mix your vision with images borrowed from the 1932 film “Freaks”. Also remember your childhood horrors aboard a ghost train. From the six curtains of different lengths installed here and there on the small stage of the Comédie – once the robotic voice which provides the prologue is silenced – will emerge similar phantasmagorical creatures, from the imagination of Catherine Travelletti.
Here a giant grasshopper or a one-armed stick insect, there a devouring saurian followed by a rabbit with a hypertrophied umbilical cord. On a thunderous soundtrack, doubled by a live crackling drums (Nicolas Field on the musical composition), the mutants indulge – at length – in their monstrous parade. On the ground, a shimmering circle represents the planet they are destroying. Although oppressive, the paintings do not lack aesthetic relief.
One of the spooky creatures that haunt Catherine Travelletti’s ‘Matricide’.
LAURA MORIER GENOUD
A little later, the six performers, relieved of their masks, will perform a sarcastic synchronized aquagym exercise in their underwear. Later still, the fornicating demons will stop swallowing their plastic cups to humanize themselves a bit, and participate in a group therapy session led by the hilarious Fiamma Camesi as the liberator of primitive impulses…
Klaire Alice, Léonard Bertholet, Fiamma Camesi, Roberto Garieri and Stefan Jakiela are engaged in an aquagym exercise.
LAURA MORIER GENOUD
Conceived as a polyptych more than a linear narration, “Matricide” does not always shine by its coherence, even encouraging some recalcitrant spectators to leave the premises. At the same time, the synthetic voice of the intro had warned of wanting to “procreate something other than meaning”. Rather a mindless nightmare, populated by grimacing imps – our reflections.
This is because the Valaisan director Catherine Travelletti did not stop at practicing conventional theater once she graduated from La Manufacture. After acting as an actress on the right and on the left, winning a Cultural Prize from the City of Sion and founding her company Catatac, the lady trained in drama therapy, a path to healing psychic ailments through acting. Logic that for her, the scene offers the best outlets for bipeds guilty of ecocide.
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