La Dernière nuit du monde
Laurent Gaudé, Fabrice Murgia
FR st NL • 80’
Everything still sleeps, and soon never again.
Imagine a world where a pill would allow humans to sleep for 45 minutes without the effect of fatigue. In the “era of the fragmented night”, active, furious, relentless life runs through the veins of a joyful and all-powerful humanity. La Dernière nuit du monde tackles a theme which is scarely taboo. A 24-hour planet under the fallacious pretext that day is overflowing and that it is therefore time for humans to inhabit time differently. In this new work with accents of anticipation, Laurent Gaudé and Fabrice Murgia find fertile ground for collaboration. The opera Daral Shaga brought them together in 2014 alongside Cie Feria Musica. The two had planned to work together again one day. Jonathan Crary’s 24/7, Le Capitalisme à l’assaut du sommeil gave them that opportunity and imagine a young couple that this new world comes to divide. The last night comes, for humanity but also for the couple. Lou disappears. An investigation gets underway that is ultimately troubled by lack of sleep and the interests of unbridled capitalism.
Texts Laurent Gaudé, Direction & performance Fabrice Murgia, Performance Nadine Baboy, Production Cie ARTARA
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