With a dizzying fable, Tiago Rodrigues abolishes distance

Avignon Festival

Review The show "The Distance" takes us back to 2077. A father, who remained on Earth, and his daughter, sent to Mars, communicate via messages. A heartbreaking dystopia that blends the personal and the political.

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It's a huge spinner whose rotation accelerates over time, as the distance between Ali and Amina continues. The disc is split in two. On one side, the father, who remained on Earth. On the other, his daughter, sent on a mission to Mars . On one side, a record player from which jazzy notes escape, a few books, a desolate space, gaunt tree trunks. On the other, a block of stone, a bonsai under a bell jar.

The year is 2077. Our planet, devastated by global warming , is in the hands of dictatorial corporations. Republics are looking for solutions. The doctor, who practices at the hospital, is trying to resist as best he can. If his only daughter has set sail, it is to create, far from the blue planet, a new colony where equality would prevail. The condition of this new world is to eradicate all traces of the soul from the new colonists...