‘I have travelled. My eyes are filled with stardust.’ Convinced that the moon is a world comparable to ours, the narrator of this story sets out to go there. He arrives on the moon almost by accident, but is immediately captured by its inhabitants. The ‘lunarians’ walk on all fours and communicate in a musical and gestural language. Poetry is their currency. The unfortunate earthling is treated like a circus freak. The show presented by Benjamin Lazar and La Rêveuse is a guided tour of Cyrano de Bergerac's masterpiece, L'Autre Monde ou les États et Empires de la Lune (The Other World, or the States and Empires of the Moon), which circulated clandestinely until the author's death and was only published in its unabridged version in the 20th century.
The first French science fiction novel, at the cutting edge of the scientific theories of its time, it contains an astonishing demonstration of the Earth's rotation around the Sun, flying machines of all kinds, meals made of smoke, books that are read ‘with the ears’...
A baroque show lit entirely by candlelight!
Text: adapted from the novel by Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Adaptation, direction: Benjamin Lazar
The first French science fiction novel, at the cutting edge of the scientific theories of its time, it contains an astonishing demonstration of the Earth's rotation around the Sun, flying machines of all kinds, meals made of smoke, books that are read ‘with the ears’...
A baroque show lit entirely by candlelight!
Text: adapted from the novel by Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Adaptation, direction: Benjamin Lazar
