C’était l’histoire d’un bateau

Single song from the stage production Des vagues by Alizée Bingöllü and Lorenzo Papace.

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On stage: a boat, two captains, surrounded by waves. On the deck, six passengers. Brune and Blanche, two young sisters, scatter the ashes of a mysterious deceased into the wind. Aimé and Albertine, an elderly brother and sister, embark on their final crossing before being forgotten.

Diego, the ship’s cook, dreams of becoming a great maritime painter one day. Anissa, meanwhile, writes down everything she sees in a secret notebook she always carries with her.

At first, the sea is calm, with no wave in sight. But during a storm, two passengers vanish into the depths.

Waves, a storm, a dizzying journey, hypnotic songs, paper-thin set designs that shiver with every breath, wild oceanic music, a theatre of strings, characters with hand-stitched scars: a ghost, a cook, an art teacher, an orphan, an ex-con, an amnesiac, mermaids, jellyfish women, a boat, two at the helm, and a lingering sense of unease.