As part of a one and a half year tour, the In Itinere collective left its luggage in Auch to present its show “ndegrees of freedom”, at the Dôme de Gascogne on Tuesday May 26. Seven artists on stage from five different nationalities will perform on a 2 m² stage, with the starting point being one of the most important insurrectional communes, the Paris Commune of 1871.
The show “n degrees of freedom” by the In Itinere collective, with the historical sounds of the Paris Commune of 1871, will be performed on Tuesday May 26 at 8 p.m. at the Dôme de Gascogne. This evening will be “one of the highlights of the season”, as Laure Baqué, general secretary of Circa, likes to say, with seven performers of five different nationalities who will appear on stage.
Scène étroite de révolution
A stage which will be rather narrow, given the bias: a 2 m² trestle on which they will evolve for 1 hour 20 minutes. “For us, reducing the playing space means returning to a more traditional environment, it allows us to enlarge the game and project the proximity”, explains Victor Barrère, 30 years old, member of the collective.
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This choice is also part of their narrative framework, imagined by Thylda Barès, the director, which focuses on the seventy-two days of the Paris Commune in 1871: two and a half months of insurrection and autonomy under the principles of direct democracy. “It is the first truly popular and proletarian revolution, it breaks out at the time when France has just suffered a defeat at the hands of Prussia, which is at the gates of Paris, and the French government has collapsed at Versailles. Paris was totally isolated and that The idea of the trestle comes from there.”
Almost a Gers cultural exception
The collective, with a total of around forty members but represented by seven on this show, includes an Auscitain: Victor Barrère. He, who composed the music for the show, also takes on the role of musician, with drums on stage. He returns to the town where he grew up and went to school, with great pleasure: “I even volunteered here in Circa for a few years.”
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A visit that delights Circa and its management: “It was on the one hand to discover this very beautiful show and also for Victor, to see what he does outside of his Auscitan company,” explains Laure. The link with the Gers has always remained for the artist: “We tried in Toulouse with my partner, but in fact, we continued to work with Circa.”
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After a year and a half of touring and eighty dates throughout France, the feedback on the show is very good, all types of public come to see it, even if it is not recommended for children under ten, for reasons of understanding of the subject.
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Their date in Auch is expected, part of the profits will even be donated to Amnesty International, with the presence of the departmental president. If you want to sample this stage revolution for an evening, come to the Dôme de Gascogne on Tuesday May 26 at 8 p.m.
