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What to say of love when each one seems to have deposited the patent of it? and when suffering goes beyond relief in it ? Installed in their cul de sac, Wedged Hearts live solitary, crazy, obsessional love stories. We imagined a convivial menagerie presenting to the public a pathological panel of loves in their exoskeletons: Haunting Houses. Rather than a show it is a guided, animated and contradictory spectacular visit of this menagerie. Some of them are enclosed, tormented or inquisitive, with a backdrop of images close to that of a funfair or children’s books . The aim is to try and glorify these wasted, fantasised and egocentric loves, a complete hotchpotch sometimes cold and sometimes warm.

In the Menagerie of Wedged Hearts, ghostly, foolish and cruel loves are dancing. Because love and desire make sometimes people do anything, we celebrate of them the escapades in a nasty worship .

A multidimensional show

The main image of the show is inspired by the funfairs, popular theatre, variety shows of the 19 th century (melodrama, vaudeville etc) and animated children’s books.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION :

Each house, which is on wheels, is coloured in a different monochrome, and each one shelters a particular character, pushed by another costumed character (The String puller).

From time to time the houses open up like music boxes going into animation and playing with the character inside, to tell stories with no outcome. Sometimes they emanate peremptory stories and each one gets terribly caught up. Throughout the show the houses play together and separately.

The “Sniper” a free electron character, seducer and pathogenic Don Juan, will multiply the most distilling declarations between them.

Synopsis of the first 5 housesPhoto Album

ELEMENTS:

  • *Wheeled, animated houses, 3 to 4 metres high, 1m50 approx length and width, with integrated and independent sound systems.

    *Tall and colourful, half masked characters, each accompanied by a “String puller”; The Hard of Loving.

    *A franc-tireur, a kind of seducer who declares love to everyone who presents themselves.

    *An individual and original sound system for each house, with a polyphony in 5 different languages ( English, German, Italian, Spanish and French) which can be sung by local choral groups; (9 mins approx per house).

    *Peremptory monologues which counterpoint, and addressed to someone on the demands for love, representing further closures: one for each house, interpretated by the String puller; The Lady of the Land, a love story teller, a megalomaniac butler, an unfaithful lover, etc...

    *Ritualised interviews, a few hours before.

    *Rituals which announce and contest:

    *Spectators time if whole show is followed; 1hour 15mins.

Texts Pierre Prévost
Musics Eric Traissard
Setting in scene Pierre Prévost assisted by Jacot Martin
Scenographies Melanie Claude, Veronique Vigneron, Benoït Afnaïm, Patrick Warin
Actors Jacot Martin, Mika Caudal, Olivier Boudrand, Isabeau Shazada, Virginia Bracq, Djamel Afnaï, Samuel Mathieu, Laurent Gernigon, Marthe Drouin
General control Patrick Warin
Production Maryz Archambeau & Estelle TranVanTam
Costumes Veronique Vigneron (general design), Veronique Biron, Dominque Christina, Hakima Amari (realization) Mona Bausson (masks) Lénaïc, Chloé, Lucie (blows of hand)