Zéro

After having presented plays exploring the numbers 1 through 9 and multiple facets of identity, Mani Soleymanlou is coming back to ZÉRO, to the vast emptiness. By returning to the story of his father and his escape from Iran and by questioning what he himself chooses to tell his son, Soleymanlou attempts to trace his own origins and those of his creative work.

Seeking what brings us together rather than what divides us, Mani Soleymanlou wanted to go back to what inspired him 10 years ago to do his first show, UN. To that emptiness. Before everything that followed. With humour and self-deprecation, he asks us this question in ZÉRO: Are we what was transmitted to us or what we will pass on to others?

Created in Montreal in 2011 by actor Mani Soleymanlou, the company Orange Noyée takes its name from a Persian tradition. During the Iranian New Year, along with other decorations in the home, there is a bowl of water with a floating orange. This represents the earth floating in its universe, the bowl of water. The name Orange Noyée evokes the drowning of the earth in its universe. This idea that we are submerged by our time, our era, is at the heart of the reflections of the company and its artists.