In a forest threatened with extinction, humans persist in enjoying themselves: pleasure, fun, blinders too. But until when? Stuck in their distress, how can they avoid sinking into the abyss? And above all, what can we hold on to, to stay alive in spite of it all?
From an attempt to reintroduce a wild animal to a shower of dead birds crashing to the ground, from a nature reconnecting workshop to the disappearance of the last tree on earth, TIMBER* is a visual and non-verbal show, a contemporary fable dissecting our link to the living.
*Warning cry called out by loggers before the tree falls.
Direction and staging Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola
Performance Muriel Legrand, Sophie Leso, Sophie Linsmaux, and Aurelio Mergola
General assistance Sophie Jallet
Scenography Aurélie Deloche, Nicolas Olivier, and Noémie Vanhesten Props Noémie Vanheste
Costumes Camille Collin and Cinzia Derom
Stage and movement direction Sophie Leso Script Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola, and Thomas van Zuylen Sound design Maxime Pichon
Lighting design Guillaume Toussaint-Fromentin
Prosthetics, masks and manipulated objects Joachim Jannin, Jean-Raymond Brassine, and Juliette Tracewski
Technical direction Nicolas Olivier
Stage management Charlotte Persoons (alternating with Ondine Delaunois)
Sound technician Hubert Monroy
Light technician Margaux Fontaine
Constructions Rudi Bovy, Charlotte Persoons, Manon Vanheste, and Noémie Vanheste
Make-up & hair styling Gaëtan d’Agostino
Thanks to the interns Sarah Brunori, Calista Huisman, Annabelle Kihoulou, and Alexandre Moxhet
Thanks to Yves Marez, Nicolas Persoons, and Ateliers Zinneke
Administration and production Marion Couturier
Development, communication and tour manager (BE & FR) BLOOM Project
Tour manager (non-French-speaking territories) Aurora Nova
Production Compagnie Still Life
Co-production Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Centre Culturel de l’Arrondissement de Huy, Les Célestins – Théâtre de Lyon, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – Scène nationale, La Coop asbl, and Shelter Prod Executive production Théâtre Les Tanneurs
With the help of Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service du Théâtre, taxshelter.be, ING et du Tax Shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge
With the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse & Wallonie-Bruxelles International
The Still Life company is a partner artist of Théâtre Les Tanneurs