To the Ends of the world
With Abbi Patrix
1h45 minutes
Conception and Direction
Abbi Patrix
Artistic collaboration
Script : Nathaël Moreau
Movement : Pascale Houbin
Music : Jean-François Vrod
Lighting : Sam Mary
Sound : Alexis Meier
Creation 2002
English version first performed in Saint Donats Art Center - July 2004
Coproduction
Compagnie du Cercle,
La Maison du Conte in Chevilly-Larue
The earth is flat. It is only round at the end of the world.
The end of the world…
This was originally the title of a part of an African epic taken from the book Black Anthology by Blaise Cendrars. It then became a stage production : stories that take you on a journey round the world, and bring you back to yourself.
This is the journey that Abbi Patrix invites you to go on : travelling from traditional folk tales, to an adaptation of the K by Buzzati, from poems by Birago Diop and Blaise Cendrars, to myths and legends from the world over, even sharing family memories of his own… With the pulse of drums and sanzas, the stories follow one another, opening both a universal fund of stories and different cultural forms.
These texts reflect the frailty of men, their solitude and their wanderings, the folly of being human, the importance of filiation, and the question of identity.
Through these tales Abbi Patrix brings to life the stories and the myths of the world, showing us that ultimately the end of the world lies at the edge of the stage : in front of us, his audience.
