DOMMAGE DOMMAGE (2024)

DOMMAGE DOMMAGE (2024)

DOMMAGE DOMMAGE is an multidisciplinary show which has been premiered in February 2024 under the wooden roof of Bienzgut, a Bern-based cultural center.
The show is inspired by the text Événements regrettables by Yves Reynaud (1985). Événements regrettables is a collection of monologues, songs, duets and trios exploring human interaction. The text discusses unease, innocence, irony and fear, plunging us into a dreamlike experience that might be both disturbing and captivating.
Like Reynaud's text, IPSO's performance is made up of a multitude of tableaux: dialogs, songs, poems, soliloquies that stage a family meal with its moments of joy, fear, and embarrassment. This is not a theater piece; the music is central, and it goes hand in hand with acting and dance into a slightly out-of-the-ordinary gathering that appeals to all, young and old alike.
IPSO composes these immersive tableaux as one forgets one's keys inside the door on the way to a romantic rendezvous: with emotion, lightness and absent-mindedness.

"On demande des formes nouvelles, mais on les reconnait que si elles ressemblent aux anciennes." Yves Reynaud

Casting :
MATTHIEU WENGER, EVA MARLINGE, ANNA ROTH, CLARA DIETZE, JOAO CALADO,  REBECCA MINTEN, SAMUEL GFELLER, LUZ GONZALEZ

Pictures by Martin Obrist