La Mort d'Adam (The death of Adam)

Through the life and death of the bull Adam, a whole adventure is recounted: through words and through moving images, through music, composed especially for the show, and magic, which has fascinated Jean Lambert-wild for many years. 

Collaborating with the illusionist Thierry Collet, he will transform our perspective on the art of magic as a practice that is halfway between what is tangible and the supernatural. Used as a creative device in its own right, and not just as an illustration of the story, magic becomes an integral part of Jean Lambert-wild’s quest towards an early but ever-present existence. 

It is not the truth that interests the author here – because there is no “honest truth” in childhood memories – but the story, made up in almost equal parts of the imaginary and the real, the story that one makes up, and then shares. Mixing in the voice of a father, the caress of a breath of wind, the scent of a flower or fruit, this enigmatic journey, this blind voyage, this quest to a land of identity, if it can be defined as such, will make us see the theatre as a place of mystery, a place of daydreams. In an echo to the world of childhood. 

Jean-François Perrier, Avignon 2010