In Poligny, Groupe Déjà explores alliances and conflicts between brothers in ‘Cowboy or Indian?’. Ages 10 and over, running time: 1 hour 20 minutes.
About this event in the Jura in Poligny
Two brothers confront the bonds of childhood
What still unites Martin and Benoit Fournier today? They are brothers: that is all, and it is already too much. Now adults, they still bear the indelible marks of their childhood, but also of its unfulfilled promises.
With ‘Cowboy or Indian?’, Groupe Déjà returns to the question of family, this time taking sibling relationships as its subject. The show is presented at Chapelle de la Congrégation, in Poligny.
Between alliances and conflicts
Relationships between brothers and sisters allow for every kind of alliance and conflict. Through the two Fournier brothers, this theatrical panorama seeks out the fine line separating love from hate, quarrels from closeness. It brings together emotion and idiocy, absurdity and biting humour, tenderness and cruelty.
At the heart of the play lies a question: how and why do we remain ‘brothers’ when everything seems to divide the adults we have become? Despite everything brothers and sisters can throw in one another's faces, why are estrangements not more common? The sibling bond, with all its contradictions, is the subject of this new exploration of family by Groupe Déjà.
Performance information
This theatre production is for audiences aged 10 and over. It runs for 1 hour 20 minutes.
Writing, direction and performance
Antoine Meunier and Sébastian Lazennec are the play's writers and performers. Direction is collective, with an outside perspective from Stanislas Hilairet and Servane Deschamps. Choreography is by Florence Loison.
Creative and technical team
The set is created by Olivier Clausse and Sarah Quentin. Simon Rutten is responsible for lighting design and technical direction; sound design is by Julien Leguay.
Touring technical operations are handled by Simon Rutten or Julien Leguay or Samy Hidous or Thomas Breheret. Photographs are by Pascal Boudet.
Émilie Métris handles bookings, production and administration. Communications are managed by Laurianne Marié.