Schlachthaus Theater

Lab Rats est un duo intimiste d’une heure en terrarium d’une humanité déroutante malgré une bêtise radicale.

Une heure durant, deux hommes qui ne semblent pas connaître les codes qui régissent nos interactions sociales, tentent de cohabiter. Ils se manipulent, se portent, s’observent, essayent de se comprendre non sans maladresse et surtout sans jugement. Ils sont à la fois les scientifiques et les rats de laboratoire de leurs propres expériences jubilatoires et absurdes. Ils sont deux, ils sont un, ils semblent être mille.

«Lab Rats» is a 55-minute duet wherein the audience is seated around a small stage at close proximity to the performers. This intimate piece tells the story of the endless adjustments required for two people to meet. An attempt to explore the fragility of human relationships and the obligation to cooperate in order to escape solitude. Through the prism of risk and the limits of the body, this project creates tableaux which play with the codes of theatrical representation, mixing dance, theater and circus and drawing inspiration from the principles of non-verbal communication.

The disposition defines a restricted space of play in which the two men are forced to coexist and evolve. The great proximity between the audience and the protagonists offers the spectators a unique cinematographic experience during which they have the opportunity to observe humans in their intimate solitude as one would observe two rats in a laboratory cage.