Rebellion of the minuscule (SCHOOL GROUPS)

Performed in French

At the crossroads of the museum and the laboratory, this show invites the audience to a journey towards the infinitely small, with humour and visual poetry. Quantum physics is complex, paradoxical, sometimes frustrating in its incomprehensibility. But it is also the heart, often strange or disturbing, yet essential, of our world. Rebellion of the minuscule is a voyage into the depths of the atoms that make up everything that surrounds us. An object theatre show where artworks are built live. Where the images’ low tech magic magnifies the sense of vertigo, as we move between the known and the unknown, certainty and the void, light and matter.

Running time: 50 minutes

Technique : object theatre

Audience: 15 years +

Topics covered: quantum physics and abstract art, the infinitely small, observation and its impact, the vertiginous gap between knowledge and the unknown, humour and visual poetry

School level: grades 10-11 and Cegep

The show will be followed by a talkback with the artists.

Study guide

A Casteliers and Théâtre Outremont co-presentation, with support frome voyagements and Université de Montréal Faculty of Arts and Science. 

Video

Photos

Photos : Maxim Paré-Fortin

Company

Depuis 2015, le Théâtre du Renard explore les idées qui ont transformé notre vision de la réalité : astrophysique, écologie, philosophie. La science permet d’explorer des terrains artistiques peu défrichés. D’enrichir nos sensibilités. De voir, tout à coup, ce qui a toujours été là. La compagnie manie habilement la poésie et l’humour du théâtre d’objets et l’art de la création transdisciplinaire. Notre regard d’artiste fait des découvertes scientifiques des récits d’explorations sensibles.

www.theatrerenard.com/

Credits

Artistic direction, story and performance: Antonia Leney-Granger
Stage direction: Évelyne Laniel
Performance: Karine St-Arnaud
Lighting design and stage management: Mélanie Whissell
Scenography: Véronique Poirier
Sound design: Nicolas Letartre-Bersianik
Scientific advice: Stéphanie Jolicoeur, physicienne et vulgarisatrice scientifique
Voice-over: Jean-François Beauvais