Dimanche

Dimanche received two Maeterlinck Awards in Belgium in 2020: “Best Show Award” and “Best Artistic and Technical Creation Award”.

Sometime in the near future… Humanity has failed to adapt to the new ecological reality. It is officially the end of the world as we know it. In their small city house, a family is about to spend their Sunday together. Amidst the climatic chaos, they absurdly attempt to maintain their family traditions. Meanwhile, three wildlife reporters are doing their best to document Earth’s last living species. Between dreamlike fiction and factual reality, Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of humanity overcome by the uncontrollable forces of nature, observing the absurdity of keeping up appearances amidst an ecological collapse.

The Focus company and the Chaliwaté company came together for collective writing in 2016. They have long been closely following the work of their respective companies, and it became evident to them that they had a similar approach, a shared taste for unusual, visual, artisanal, and poetic forms of theater. They pooled their tools in the service of a writing style that blends gestural theater, object theater, puppetry, acting, and video, meticulously working to create a unique, visual, and poetic language that draws its inspiration from the ordinary to attempt to touch upon the universal.