FAKE MICROFICTIONS

Text and direction

Julien Rocha

Cast

Fanny Caron, Léonie Kerckaert, Ayoub Kallouchi, (cast currently being finalised)

Dramaturgy

Emilie Beauvais

Set design

Clément Dubois

Costumes

Marie Ampe

Lighting

Jonathan Chassaing

Stage manager

Clément Breton

Set construction

FAKE (microfictions) is a play composed of multiple fictional stories, all of which evoke a distortion of the truth.

Just as we ‘scroll’ through our mobiles, the stories will flash before our eyes. Images, information, shared text messages… impulses and aversions follow one another, reflecting the exhilarating and paradoxical maelstrom we experience in front of our screens, ranging from the need to be part of this world to the most utter revulsion.

Six major themes will be explored in this star-shaped narrative: the violence of hackers and trolls; the quest for identity lost amidst multiple avatars and virtual romances; intimacy laid bare on social media; reputations, tarred and feathered in the school playground; fake news; and finally, the metaverse we need to cope with reality.

On stage, the four performers in *Fake* create a myriad of characters who navigate this real and virtual world, ‘sliding’ to the rhythm of the situations with humour and detachment, dropping their cyber masks and attempting to escape themselves by occasionally allowing themselves to be sincere.

FAKE (microfictions)  continues our approach of blending our artistic research with our outreach work, addressing powerful and topical social issues (such as n