Bois brûlé

Facing the ocean stands a black house, the wood of its cladding burned to protect it. Built and lived in by Karlota at the end of the 20th century, it was bought twenty years later by Sebastian, a film composer. Fifty years later, the house becomes the setting for a film about possible ghosts. Constructed in three parts, Bois Brûlé draws on the codes of the haunted house genre, popularized in cinema and TV series, to offer a theatrical version. Twenty-four characters go through ninety-one years of a house's existence, during which a stain on the wall, as a metaphor for the visible and the invisible, keeps getting bigger...

"Marcos, Izumi and I decided to combine our research objects and tackle together the topos of the haunted house, hijacking it and focusing on its theatrical dimension. A fable borrowing from horrific literature began to emerge. A genre play, just as there are genre films." - Jonathan Mallard, director