La Dispute

Between man and woman, who was at the beginning of inconstancy and infidelity? When do domination and the need to possess take the place of Love and Truth?

In the Age of Enlightenment, Marivaux imagines an experiment worthy of scientists from the end of the 19th century or chief doctors of concentration camps... With the lightness and delicacy of his writing, he paints for us a world where four children were isolated in their cradle from the rest of society. The process was devised by the Prince's father, who passed down to him the title and the experiment... The Prince's son invites Hermiane to make her complicit in his voyeurism.

An incessant mirror game, initial encounters and discoveries reminiscent of wild children, a prince bored in his dying world, an intoxicated noblewoman imprisoned in this hellish experiment... Everything has been given to us to experience.

Masks, physical theatre, dance. Here everything has allowed us to give body to Marivaux's chiselled, precise language. Plenty of emotions, laughter and astonishment await in this meeting between humans 'from the dawn of time'. Nature and Culture always remain in opposition and complement each other at the end of the play.

Who has not dreamed of witnessing 'the beginning of the world'? We invite you there... in the 18th century, resonating in the era of reality TV and a world on its last legs...