No World / FPLL

No World / FPLL is a documentary play based on texts, gestures, images, postures, noises, and archetypes taken from reality. The Winter Family duo paint the picture of the democratic, wired, white, and “so-called multicultural” world that surrounds us, and in which we take part. A world in which the overabundance of information, food, images, and sounds can lead to an embarrassing and exhausting feeling of numbness. Winter Family zooms in on our daily banalities with an optimistic irony that highlights our discomfort when faced with this never-ending and blinding flow, and the void it creates. Mimicking TED Talks, Ruth Rosenthal and her accomplices—English performer Johanna Allitt, French b-boy Mamadou Gassama, and Lotharingian lecturer Guy-Marc Hinant—take us on a poetic-documentary journey, with numerous pauses to reflect on those anecdotal images we cannot zap away from. No heavy-handed message, no indoctrination, but a desire to share this world by diving deep into the circles of a new purgatory, like a modern Dante. 

Conception, direction and scenography Winter Family (Ruth Rosenthal and Xavier Klaine)
Lights Jérémie Cusenier, Julienne Rochereau
Sound Sébastien Tondo
Choreographic consultants Damien Jalet, Sylvia Bidegain
Video Jérôme Vernez
Translation Yves Valentin and Marion Jones
additional Voices Emmanuelle Klaine, Evelyne Klaine, Saralei Klaine, Olivier Pérolo

With Johanna Allitt, Mahamadou Gassama, Guy-Marc Hinant, Ruth Rosenthal  

Production Winter Family
Coproduction Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, CENTQUATRE-Paris, Théâtre Paul Éluard de Choisy-le-Roi, Les Quinconces-L'Espal Scène conventionnée du Mans
With the support of  Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication-DRAC Île-de-France et de la Région Île-de-France
With the help of the Centre dramatique national Orléans/Loiret/Centre, Centre culturel ABC La Chaux-de-Fonds, La Fonderie-Le Mans, Pro Helvetia Fondation suisse pour la Culture
Co-hosted La Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon