FFF2 | 300 el x 50 el x 30 el

There’s a hamlet on stage. Behind it, we see the forest. The sharp smell of damp earth and fallen leaves pierces our nostrils. In the foreground, someone is fishing in a murky pond. The atmosphere is uneasy. Suddenly, a cameraman sneaks in among the six wooden huts—from now on, he will project every paranoiac happening in the hamlet onto giant screens. The little community eats, drinks and makes merry, flirts, masturbates and teeters close to the brink of psychosis: the hamlet is a hyperreal world in miniature which no one can leave.

We will never hear the villagers speak, but we will see them living in the shadow cast by a disaster to come.This 55-minute silent ritual of theatrical and filmic tableaux-vivants speaks in a darkly allegorical way about the painful beauty of failure, the defeat of rationality and the unrelenting allure of instinct. An eminently ambitious and much-discussed work, it is the creation of the curiously named FC Bergman (the FC standing for Football Club), a rapidly up-and-coming young theatre group whose on-stage allegories recycle elements from Seventies cult horror films, but also Walt Disney animations and the cinematic universes of Ingmar Bergman, Roy Andersson, David Lynch and Lars von Trier, as well as happenings, the visual arts and video clips!

We should note that the production’s title is a reference to the dimensions listed in the Bible for Noah’s ark: 300 cubits long by 50 cubits wide by 30 cubits deep.