With FLESH, composed of four short stories for four actor·ress·e·s, Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola map human flesh, from every angle.
FLESH brings into play the bruised, raw flesh, but also tender and above all in eternal need of the other. Rooted in his body for better or for worse, the human being is indistinguishable from his flesh, incarnation of his being in the world. However, today, this anchoring tends to disappear.
From a wedding anniversary party to a hospital room, from a virtual reality experience to a family reunion in a café, FLESH is a visual and non-verbal show, a contemporary fable that plunges the spectator into the thickness of our flesh. With humor and strangeness, the STILL Life company stirs us up in an invigorating way : from our bruised flesh to our living flesh, there is only one step.
Concept and direction Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola
Scenario Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola and Thomas van Zuylen
Interpretation Muriel Legrand, Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola, Jonas Wertz
Staging and movement Sophie Leso Scenography Aurélie Deloche
Assistants scenography Rudi Bovy, Sophie Hazebrouck
Intern scenography Farouk Adoulaye
Accessories Noémie Vanheste
Costume design Camille Collin
Seamstress Cinzia Derom
Technical direction Nicolas Olivier
Light design Guillaume Toussaint-Fromentin
Sound design Éric Ronsse
Stage manager Rudy Bovy / Charlotte Persoons
Masks and puppets Joachim Jannin
Voice-over Stéphane Pirard
General assistant Sophie Jallet
Administration Marion Couturier
Development, communication and distribution BLOOM Project
Production Still Life Company
Co-production Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Cultural Center of Huy,Kinneksbond/Mamer Cultural Centre, Coop asbl and Shelter Prod Delegate production Théâtre Les Tanneurs Theater
With help of Ministère de la fédération Walloni-Bruxelles - Service du Théâtre, Festival de Liège and the 140
Supported by Theatre National Wallonie-Brussels, Taxshelter.be, ING, the Tax-shelter of the Belgian federal government, Wallonie-Bruxelles International and WBTD With the participation of the Performing Arts Center
This show was created in February 2022 at Théâtre les Tanneurs.
Contact distribution non-French-speaking countries - Aurora Nova / Carolina Ortega - carolina@auroranova.org
The Still Life company is associated artist with the Theatre Les Tanneurs.