Y'a plus qu'à – Scena Nostra

The future no longer inspires dreams: this is the realisation reached by the author of a theatre company, who is suffering from writer’s block. He therefore calls his actors together: how can they write a play in which hope still remains? Blending science fiction and zany comedy, the writer and director Julien Guyomard has concocted a joyfully unrestrained theatrical ‘mise en abyme’! Drawing on real-life encounters with researchers and scientists, the play brilliantly blends the burlesque with the political to examine our powerlessness and our ecological anxieties. And, behind the farce, it also sketches out paths towards…