"Le Jardin des délices", mise en scène Philippe Quesne - Extracts

Welcome to Le Jardin des délices, a retro-futuristic epic that explores worlds yet to come. In the phantasmagoric space of the Carrière de Boulbon, Phillipe Quesne, creator of La Mélancolie des dragons, La Nuit des taupes, and Farm fatale, returns to the Festival to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of his company, Vivarium Studio. His team of performers, actors and musicians is ready to embark on an expedition through time to visit us, a journey inspired by the premonitory allegories of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting. The Dutch artist depicted the complete upheaval of mores, technology, and politics in a period of transition, between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the same spirit, and at the crossroads between medieval bestiary, environmental science fiction, and contemporary western, Le Jardin des délices explores worlds on the edge of ours, where fantasy and utopia complicate the relationship between nature and culture, and offer a playful response to the threats we currently face.