Description

Diane and Mathis live five centuries apart. Everything seems to separate them. Spring will bring them together around a common rebellion.<p> Mathis Grünwald, the celebrated creator of the Isenheim Altarpiece, was a German religious painter of the early 16th century. He viewed the arrival of perspective in painting with horror, interpreting it as an unbearable takeover of God by humankind, reduced to human proportions. Diane, on the other hand, is a contemporary of our world. Upon her father's death, she inherits the family slaughterhouse. She is pressured to sign a lucrative contract to expand the business. But this inspires in her a violent rejection of the systematic power of death that humans arrogate to themselves over animals.<br> Haunted by a shared disgust for human excess, Diane and Mathis will be brought together by the magic of puppetry.<br><br> The company<br> After having the opportunity to present "Ascension," its very first creation, at the Charleville-Mézières World Puppet Theatre Festival in 2023, Compagnie SITIO returns in 2025 with its second large-scale puppet production, entitled "Spring." The company has thus specialized in precise and visual contemporary theatre, combining acting, puppetry, and object manipulation.<br> SITIO also develops other theatrical forms taking the high mountains as their subject: object theatre for young audiences ("Ô") and theatrical and sound work ("Ondes de choc").<br> With poetry, dark humor and burlesque, the SITIO Company questions our Icarus-like temptations of elevation and excess.</p>