Text Eric ARLIX
Commissioned by the Mac/Val in 2010 for the Fiction collection (commission based on the work of an artist then exhibiting at the Mac/Val: Simon STARLING)
Concept and set design Joël FESEL
With the participation of Marie-Laure HÉE and Pierre DÉAUX
Lights and stage management Raphaël SEVET
Machine construction Alexandre BÜGEL
Administration Aurore CARPENTIER
Distribution Céline MAUFRA
Special thanks to Gabrielle VINSON
With Georges CAMPAGNAC and Eliott PINEAU ORCIER

Production Groupe Merci
Support from the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council
Residencies CIRCa, Pôle National Cirque, Auch Gers Occitanie
Le Groupe Merci is subsidized by the DRAC Occitanie, the Occitanie-Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region and the City of Toulouse. 

“Only a stuntman (and boxer) would dare try all of these leaps and recoveries. Both fierce and burlesque, Eliott Pineau Orcier proves himself well equipped to make his way in this merciless world. A performance of the highest quality.” Télérama, June 2018

Based in Toulouse since 1996, stage director Solange Oswald and visual artist Joël Fesel conduct “nocturnal objects” with the Groupe Merci—experiments at the crossroads between theatre, poetry and the visual arts. They like to claim non-theatrical spaces and create performance-journeys that immerse audiences in new worlds. What is at play on the Groupe Merci’s stage is a dialogue between the space and the texts. They seek to trigger reactions and provide contemporary poetry where it is unexpected, all in the context of unusual places: in a camp with La Mastication des morts, at the top of a pit with Europeana, under an oppressive ceiling with Trust... Programme is the company’s first circus performance. The Groupe Merci runs the Pavillon Mazar in the heart of Toulouse, a laboratory for new forms that is also “a place that is ideal for theater, for experiments, for the restless and amusing sharing of our mutations.”