Mehari & Adrien.avi

Méhari and Adrien is the story of a couple who plays together, who has fun, who plays pretend, who plays very childish games, games that are sometimes very silly, often rather crazy, and it's difficult to really understand why. One can feel that there's something strange, as if they were fleeing fom something... You're right, it sounds like a little bird! It is a little bird. - Are you sure? - I speak "little-bird". Our characters are aboard a sidecar which isn't really a sidecar, it's actually a... bike. And a boat. Basically, the author, Blutsch, is having fun getting us confused. We find the characters on the road and they're fleeing from something. A flight from time, a flight from death; there is a fear of growing up, of growing old, and their way of fleeing this is by playing. They are adults, adults who play like kids. They're going to bury a mosquito, they're going to mug a surgeon... - You think they're coming back? - I don't know, do I! - We'd better clear out of here - away from them. - Did you see which way they went? - No. - So we could end up right behind them. - True. Blutsch's writing pertains to the genre of comedy, talking lightly and humoristically of grave topics, topics closely linked to a catastrophe, and depending on what play he's writing, he will tell of a catastrophe that can be on a world-wide scale or a human scale, such as in Méhari and Adrien. There is, between the characters, within their couple, a coming catastrophe. - They're coming back! - Let's not move. - They're looking for us, what do we do? - Let's not move! It's a sort of crazy universe, really similar to "Monty Python", especially in the play "Gzion", but as the play progresses, the crazy stuff always degenerates into what I'd call a slow descent into Hell - especially in "Méhari and Adrien". - Do you, Miss, accept to marry? - Yes, Father, I accept. - Will you be faithful? - I will be faithful. - Until death? -Until death. "Méhari and Adrien" is presented as a road-play, in the same way as a road-movie. The play is built on the same model: there are travelling scenes and stationary scenes. Thus, the play is very cinematically built. The play itself is closely related to many things other than theatre : there's cinema, comics, cartoons, a lot of music - the performance is riddled with music and auditory atmospheres. - That's all you have to say? - That's all you have to say? - I asked you a question! - I asked you a question! - Stop it! - Stop it! The text is extremely rich and the play has a very quick rhythm; I believe there are about 20 different scenes in 50 minutes. We use the stage to create many different universes: there is the universe of the road, there's reality, and then there is fantasy. We dream some situations. Sometimes it's one of their games, sometimes we're more or less in Méhari's mind. - Then it's cancer. - Cancer, doctor?