Philippe Quesne

On the borderline between the human and the puppet, the farmer and the scarecrow, the five characters in Farm Fatale appear and take up position against a background of immaculately white canvas. 

Masked, with their voices deformed, these contemplative clowns with their fingers on the pulse beats of the planet may not be such strangers. For these men and women hoping for a better world are first of all dreamers, poets, militants, whose capacity for amazement at the beauty and diversity of nature is charming and communicative. Living at the level of plants or animals, these heroes are as funny as they are disarmingly considerate, attempt in spite of all to escape from the unbridled capitalism that destroys forests, land, oceans, and to save the many lives of all around us that which teems, speaks, poetises and thinks. 

Show created on 29 March 2019 for the repertory of the Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany.