Sous la toile de Jheronimus

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Sous la toile de Jheronimus

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Compagnie Les Colporteurs pursues its artistic adventure under the big top around the work of the painter Jérôme Bosch and more particularly around the triptych The garden of the delights.
Bosch's paintings express in depth the beauty of human nature and soul but also the pain and suffering undergone by lost human beings.
If, as Shakespeare put it, the stage is the mirror of humankind, it is also a suitable place where to overcome collective fear, claim dignity, celebrate expression and call for freedom.
The Garden of Earthly Delights stands out in Jérôme Bosch's paintings as it was not commissioned by the church, and eludes all dogmas, theological judgments or religious stances.
The painter then positions himself as an observer of the world, getting swept into his wandering imagination, he offers us a fresco in which a utopian wonderful freedom meets the nightmarish cruel darkness of the world.
We find this attitude interesting and inspirational to create a tragicomic metaphor of his work in a show. It will be made up of five movements : the creation of the world, when man and woman meet, knowledge and delight, awareness and blindness, and the end of the cycle, the mysterious future !

The contemporary performance of the company echoes within us the deep-seated feeling to belong to a Mother Earth, whose future is definitely hanging by a thread.
S. Testa - La Provence - January 2017

Dates of the show

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Casting :

Design, stage direction, dramaturgy and scenography : Antoine Rigot in collaboration with Alice Ronfard
Artistic advisor : Agathe Olivier

Director and production assistant : June Claire Baury

Circus Artists : Orianne Bernard or Camille Magand, Gilles Charles-Messance, Anatole Couety, Julien Lambert, Lisa Lou Oedegaard, Agathe Olivier

Musicians : Antoine Berland, Coline Rigot

Technical direction : Pierre-Yves Chouin
Sound manager : Stéphane Mara

Lights manager : Olivier Duris

Stage manager : Max Heraud

Big Top managers : Jean-Christophe Caumes, Tom Khomiakoff, Christophe Longin

Technical Conception : Nicolas Legendre in collaboration with Max Heraud
Musical composition : Antoine Berland

Lights and video conception : Mariam Rency, Olivier Duris
Costumes, accessories & masks : Hanna Sjodin, Fredericka Hayter
Administration/Production : Fanny Du Pasquier
Booking : Oceane Guenerie

Partners :

Production : Les Colporteurs


Co-productions et accueils en résidences : Furies, Châlons-en-Champagne, PNAC en préfiguration - Grand Est ● Théâtre Firmin Gémier / La Piscine, Antony, PNAC d’Île-de-France ● Archaos, Marseille, PNAC Méditerranée.


Co-productions : Fondation Jheronimus Bosch 500, ’s-Hertogenbosch (Pays-Bas) ● Festival Circolo, Liempde (Pays-Bas) ● Plate-forme « 2 Pôles Cirques en Normandie I La Brèche à Cherbourg – Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf » ● La CitéCirque, Bègles ● La Cascade, Bourg-St-Andéol, PNAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes ● Théâtre du Vellein, scène conventionnée de Villefontaine.


Projet soutenu par : Le Ministère de la Culture - DGCA ● La Région Ile-de-France ● l’ADAMI ● la SPEDIDAM.


La compagnie Les Colporteurs est conventionnée par la DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, la Région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, le conseil départemental de l’Ardèche et est soutenue par la Ville du Teil d’Ardèche.