Duration: approx. 40 min

Musical theatre piece for 2 percussionist-performers.

In 3 parts: Resonating Coït - The Medusa / Scratch / One day my princess...

• Charlotte Torres: concept, composition and stage direction

• Sabeth Louise Weibel: fashion design

• Juliana Santacruz and Romane Bouffioux – Projet Ohr: performance

Ear Them is first and foremost a multi-disciplinary collaboration, music and fashion, around the representation of the strong woman in art.

The piece is in three movements, punctuated by numerous references and tributes: There are the mythological figures of the first feminists, including Medusa and the Amazon; but also, Niki de Saint Phall, V. Despentes, Roxanne Shante...

In Ear Them, we find much of the popular art of small-scale street theatre: a duo on stage, a passage through the audience, puppet theatre and mime, the use of foley, sound and visual illusions, short scenes and costume changes behind a hand-made curtain.

The narrative moves from simple description to silent satire.

The piece belongs to the genre of new music theatre.

Acoustic and electric sounds give the non-verbal theatricality its full musical dimension.

It is the music, rather than a libretto with text, that justifies the theatricality and organizes the whole dramaturgy.

Each scene has its own costume and its own music, whose surrealism and absurdity invite reflection.

EAR THEM offers a committed and satirical vision of new music theatre.

©Dafni

Sketches by Sabeth Weibel