Timber

In a forest threatened with extinction, between utopias and nightmares, human beings refuse to accept that the time of the end has come. They try a course to reconnect with nature, attempt to reintroduce a wild animal and panic when a rain of dead birds falls on their heads. How do we hold on in a world that has become uninhabitable?
Hold on to life to avoid sinking into the abyss, and reawaken our connection to living things with a great deal of humor. This show is a cry of alarm, like the one uttered by lumberjacks before a tree falls, from which the title, Timber, is borrowed. For the past 15 years, Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola have been working without words, sometimes with masks, to abolish time and bring a language that is as precise as it is frightening and funny.
The duo crafts a highly visual theatrical form that serves to highlight the precariousness and fragility of the human species. "Still alive" or "still life"? The two artists leave it to the audience to choose the translation of the name of their company Still Life, probably at the crossroads of the two.