Before the Flood (Collective)
BLACK OUT, or How to Let the Light Through
A Clownish and Musical Fable
Capacity: 200
- Street theater
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BLACK OUT is an invitation to climb aboard the same boat: the utterly chaotic one filled with characters trying to knock Chaos out cold. This chaos that keeps everything teetering on the brink, that shatters destinies that never asked for it—in short, that stubbornly throws a wrench in the works of our lives... To face it, the audience is invited to enter a magic circle drawn right in the city: a ceremony is about to take place. Here, we make room for what we usually bury; we invent ways to give ourselves courage. We thumb our noses at despair before running away like kids. We play with our half-empty glasses to try to laugh at the worst with tenderness. We cobble together a poetic shelter where we can share what cannot be said outright: those stories that each of us carries in our own furrows, in our silences and metaphors.
"BLACK OUT" is an invitation to take a seat on the same boat: a truly crazy one filled with characters trying to knock Chaos out once and for all. This chaos that keeps everything in a state of instability, that shatters destinies that never asked for it, that stubbornly gets in the way of our lives... To face it, the audience is invited to enter a magic circle drawn right in the city: a ceremony is about to take place. Here, we make room for what we usually hide away; we invent ways to give ourselves the courage to face it. We thumb our noses at despair before running off like children. We play with our half-empty glasses in an attempt to laugh at the worst with tenderness. We create a poetic shelter in which to share what cannot be said outright: those stories that each of us carries along in our wake, in our silences and our metaphors.
The Eager Wait Association
5 Etienne Cardaire Street, 34000 Montpellier
Tel: +33 6 22 10 55 07 / +33 6 08 16 71 80
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BLACK OUT, or How to Let the Light In
Written by: Anouk Germser and Jennifer Lauro Mariani / Performers: Delphine Dupin, Anouk Germser, Aurélia Gonzalez, Charles Millet, Ayla Moes, Émilie Paillard / Directed by: Jennifer Lauro Mariani / Sound engineering: Hugo Coste Dombre or Florent Vielmas / Set design, costumes, props: Juliette Nozières.
COPRODUCTIONS: La Verrerie, Pôle National Cirque Occitanie / Le Tracteur – as part of the “Le Champ des Possibles” initiative / City of Montpellier. SUPPORT AND RESIDENCY PARTNERS: L’Atelline / Ax-animation / Le 108 / La Gare à Coulisses / La Friche Belle de Mai / Animakt / La Baignoire / Le 37e Parallèle / La Dame D’Angleterre / La convergence des loutres. BLACK OUT or How to Let the Light Through receives support from the Occitanie Region under the 2025 Creation Grant program, as well as from the DRAC Occitanie as part of the 2025 Street Arts Project Grant program.