Sortie de résidence du projet Appartement 54

Appartement 54 is a roving theatrical performance project in public space that proposes questioning the way we view the journey of a person struggling with alcoholism. It is summer, a brother and sister go to the neighborhood where their father lives. They are in their twenties and have just arrived by train from the city where they now live. For two weeks, they have had no news of their alcoholic father and simply know that he suffered a relapse after three years of sobriety. They will undertake a search in this neighborhood, populated by their childhood memories and the ghost of the life of this father whose daily routine they no longer share, steeped in loneliness and marked by social stigma. What haunts the story is also what has never been said or heard, and what might perhaps be said today.

Led by a strange character who is both eye and memory of the neighborhood, spectators will follow these siblings in their search across the neighborhood. My idea, through this roving walk, is to build bridges between private space and public space, between the intimate and the collective, and to offer the audience access to multiple timescales, multiple perceptions, and sensations of the same narrative.

Appartement 54 is not a show about alcohol in the sense that it does not offer a global or exhaustive view of the subject. It is one story of alcoholism among others being

told, which speaks to us of victory, defeat, invisibility, but also of affective and social ties; those uniting us with our families and those, more tenuous, that we maintain with people we pass in our buildings, in our neighborhoods, to turn the question of shame and isolation once again into a collective matter.