Johannes Dullin/Ariel Garcia/Gregory Stauffer

The Wide West Show!

ARSENIC
dance/performance | 1h00
Price : CHF 15.- (except special prices)
Thursday 28.03, 09:30 pm
Friday 29.03, 09:30 pm
Saturday 30.03, 09:30 pm
Sunday 31.03, 08:30 pm
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In this clownish interpretation of Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, three clownboys —recovering from the concrete conquest of the great globalised plains and the digital gold rush—give themselves over to a moment of exhausted entertainment.

It is the story of a well-known trio: that of the Clown, his companion the Auguste and their mentor Mr. Loyal (the ringmaster). It is the story of three clownboys in the ruins of their dreams. After the concrete conquest of the great plains of the Wild West, they have coded the digital plains, imagined a liquid world where all thought can move without limits and observe the streams crashing down on the solid continents of their reactionary thoughts. Taking inspiration from the Wild West Shows of Buffalo Bill Cody at the end of the 19th century, the trio embodies the aging figures of three white men off to conquer the world. The Wide West Show! humorously critiques our modern age’s obsession with productivity, efficiency and acceleration, of which the clown here becomes the parodic figure.

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Acting:
Johannes Dullin
Ariel Garcia
Gregory Stauffer
Costumes and stage design:
Beth Dillon
Alice Joel
Sound composition:
Ariel Garcia
Light design:
Joana Oliveira
Dramaturgy:
Marius Schaffter
Administration and diffusion:
Tutu Production – Pauline Coppée

Production:
le cabinet des curiosités
Coproduction:
Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
ADC, Genève
Residency:
Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
ADC, Genève
Campo, Gand
Lo Studio – Performing Arts Centre, Bellinzona