Popcorn Machine
A continuum of undetermined causalities and implausible consequences brings
three charismatic girls and a man to live absurd situations, in which the man dies
all the time.
A tiger falls from the sky, the fountain of Trevi becomes an atomic mushroom,
Elvira sells the apocalypse in special promotion. The metaphor of popcorn takes
sense in its explosive metamorphosis. The public’s attention crystallizes on scenic
details, a dancing Barbie, the rude rope on Elvira’s body, a dying man…
In an electrical scenic landscape, an absurd future coexists with an unknown past.
A fan caresses a volcano of popcorn. Theatre mixes with hand-to-hand reinvented
in hair-to-hair, the trapeze lived as an object of a sentimental adventure and an
acrobatic bicycle, on which spectacular legs play the Russian roulette.
The notes of a cello juxtapose to the rhythm of a sewing machine, of a Sicilian love
song, a Rachmaninoff’s tune or the groove of a firework.
These extreme situations don’t miss traces of a twisted humour and reveal in the
four personalities their deep, sometimes cruel character, touching sadism and
masochism, in a perplex cocktail of comic and tragic conditions. Ambivalent
feelings reflect their relations, which aren’t less ambiguous.
Applause, laughter and goosebumps for actors and public: Circus after My!Laika
55 min, Creation 2011
