ABOUT TREMBLING

/ PUPPET MAKING, PUPPETRY /

CONCEPT / DIRECTION: Anne Ayçoberry, and Jean-Pierre Larroche
PREMIERE: 2017, Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart

“About Trembling” is an experimental theatre project that explores the liveliness of objects, figures, and bodies, creating new moments of life and experience on stage through subtle movements, irregularities, and vibrations.

When we play with lifeless things—on stage or elsewhere—it is trembling that gives the impulse of the living. A slight trembling, fine variations, irregularities, interruptions. We invent things, we invent ourselves, and under our trembling hand a moment emerges. The principle of trembling as the breath of things. A hesitation. A shiver jumps into the pulse, a movement that resembles the signature of life. A where that trembles entirely, from a we, before an us.

"About Trembling" invents a place that brings everything—object, figure, instrument, or body—into a state of trembling. The stage of the Wilhelma Theatre becomes a laboratory, a workshop of trembling, where scenes, stories, texts, and music are conceived, tested, and played.