This diptych is a digital and theatrical narrative. The different experiences and digital installations through which the story unfolds, allow us to capture and experience the sensations of adolescents constantly confronted with their vital need for virtual and real social existence among their peers.
This transmedia project immerses the viewer in the virtual and real world of teenagers, before, during and after a party: immersion in their group of friends on Instagram, subjective experience in VR of the party supplemented by various mobile digital installations, finally diving in their internal conflicts during the indoor show. Each proposal is independent. They complement each other.
Émilie Anna Maillet immerses us, through a digital and theatrical narrative, in the virtual and real life of a group of teenagers before, during and after a party. A transmedia project consisting of a play and a journey of digital installations with performance in virtual reality. An immersion in the universe of adolescents, confronted with social representation and social networks. Dizzy.
“Crari or not”, to show off or not to show off. It is starting from the universe and the tools of adolescents that the director builds an “augmented” story reflecting the permanent coexistence of the real and the virtual among adolescents. The company offers a sensitive stroll through digital installations; a discovery of the characters and a dive into the evening where everything will change. Social networks (digital creation of 11 profiles), video presenting the Instagram universe of the characters, playful and literary MCQ allowing you to identify with one of them, or even a special Photo booth applying filters… so many digital modules for create a journey to meet the characters. Come and put on a virtual reality headset to experience the evening through the eyes of one or more young people.
After the journey of digital installations, we find the “real” teenagers in the theater, the day after the evening which, apparently, went wrong. The ten characters seem to have flirted, danced, made mistakes: Anaïs, victim of bashing, Gabriel bogged down in his lies… The show opens with a thread of comments posted on Instagram which reveals the violence of the relationships they maintain under the surface. Everyone will struggle with the revelations that were made the day before, and will try to regain the upper hand in this reality where everything is amplified by social networks and their perpetual notifications. On stage, intimacy is expressed without filter. However, in their emotions, virtual and real merge.
To like or not to like Farid Benchoubane, Pierrick Grillet, Cecile Leclerc, Romeo Mariani, Jeanne Guittet
Crari or not with ERACM’s Ensemble 29 for VR and Instagram films Athéna Amara, Aurélien Baré, Éloïse Bloch, Antoine Bugaut, César Caire, Marie Champion, Alexandre Diot-Rcheou, Camille Dordoigne, Joseph Lemarignier, Charlotte Léonhart, Auréline Paris
conception, writing, production and staging Emilie Anna Maillet
dramaturgy and literary research assistant Marion Suzanne
stage assistant Clarisse Sellier
music Brawl “dancing alone (is not enough)”
performers Clarisse Sellier and Marion Suzanne
scenography Benjamin Gabrie and Emilie Anna Maillet
fx videographer and Photomatlontl developer Maxime Lethelier
general manager and lighting designer Laurent Beucher
chief operator and vr colorist Noah Merckle
VR consultant Beaver
VR editing Arthur Chrisp
sound editing Thibault Noirot
Sound engineer Hippolyte LeBlanc
VR development Sylvain Hayot
musical creation Thibaut Haas “cowardly blue”
makeup artist wig maker Noah Quilichini
suits Emilie Anna Maillet – Clarisse Sellier
production assistant Rose Arnold
instagram graphics Sarah Williamson
literary research Marion Suzanne
instagram dramaturgy Émilie Anna Maillet – Marion Suzanne – Clarisse Sellier – Charlotte Issaly – Arthur Chrisp – Lena Garrel
Instagram production and editing Alexandre Locatelli – Arthur Chrisp – Charlotte Issaly – Noé Mercklé
digital development Antoine Messonier and Faouzi Ben Zaied
3d graphics filters Adrien Gentiles
tour management Pauline Beaudoux and Marinette Buchy
video intern and video editor Alexis Cohen
production administration Nathalie Untersinger
Production: Ex Voto à la lune with the support of the DRAC Ile-de-France and the Ile-de-France Region, the CNC as part of XN development aid, Support Fund for digital artistic creation — Funds [SCAN] with the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region
Co-production MC2 – National Stage of Grenoble | LUX – National Stage of Valencia | New Generation Theater – CDN Lyon | Le Grand R – National Stage of La Roche sur Yon | Théâtre Quartier D’Ivry – CDN du-Val-de-Marne | ERACM – regional school for actors in Cannes and Marseille
Support: the Integration Fund for Young Dramatic Artists, DRAC and Région SUD, Writing residency at Lilas en Scène, residency in schools — artistic partnership – Ile de France Region, and DRAC Ile de France — at the VOLTAIRE school complex – Paris 11, residency at the ERACM at the Friche de la Belle de Mai
Acknowledgment: Etienne LAMOTTE – teacher — and the Second 7 class of Lycée Voltaire – Paris 11.
CRARI OR NOT January 19, 20, 21, 2023 — Chronicles Festival — Friche de la Belle de Mai Marseille
TO LIKE OR NOT + CRARI OR NOT from January 31 to February 3, 2023 — MC2 – SN Grenoble
TO LIKE OR NOT + CRARI OR NOT March 2, 2023 – Grand R – SN La Roche sur Yon
TO LIKE OR NOT + CRARI OR NOT March 19 – CDA – Enghien les Bains
TO LIKE OR NOT March 30 and 31 – Wasteland of the Belle de Mai — Marseille
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