An autobiographical one-man play by a Colombian-born director. What he dreamed of upon reaching Europe from South America.

Artist/Company
Omar Porras [From Switzerland]
Date
Saturday, 16 September, 18:00-
Sunday, 17 September, 18:00-
There will be a talkback after each performance.
Running Time
80 minutes
Venue
BIRD Theatre [Theatre]
Price
Adults: 2,800yen*
Students: 1,000 yen
under 18: 500yen
*Including one drink voucher for use at the Café
Age Recommendation
Ages 8 and over
Language
Performed in French with Japanese subtitles
Mobile subtitles
Mobile devices for Japanese or English subtitles available

© ARIANE CATTON BALABEAU

© ARIANE CATTON BALABEAU

© ARIANE CATTON BALABEAU

About the programme開く

Omar Porras, 'Conjurer of the Stage', performs a story based on half his life in this strange one-man play, a mixture of autobiography and fiction. Born in South America and dreaming of Europe, a boy travels alone to France, where he spends his days earning a pittance from puppet plays. Various encounters and theatre help guide him. He recounts his eventful life poetically and humorously.

Synopsis開く

From the story of a man was born, a tale, perhaps philosophical, where there are no borders, where you pole-vault over the ocean, where the we talk to the moon, where visions are born.

Ma Colombine is a crossing of Alice's mirror, where the artist has the name of his native ancestors and his dreams, at the heart of metamorphoses.

Child, man, woman, seductive or shy, undulating body or attentive, all are the states of the body and the voice that Omar Porras goes through with a rhythmic brilliance of a thousand and one reflections that make Ma Colombine a manifest for the total art of the actor.

Cast/Staff開く

Text: Fabrice MELQUIOT

Direction, performance, scenography and costume: Omar PORRAS- Teatro Malandro

Direction assistant: Domenico CARLI

External perspective: Alexandre ETHEVE and Philippe CAR

Sound design: Emmanuel NAPPEY

Music direction and piano: Cédric PESCIA

Choreography collaboration: Kaori ITO

Props: Leo PICCIRELLI

Light: Omar PORRAS, Marc-Etienne DESPLAND and Mathias ROCHE

Stage manager: Gabriel SKLENAR

Sound manager : Maxime IMBERT

Light manager: Mathias ROCHE

Special thanks to Emmanuelle RICCI, Tania D’AMBROGIO and Yvan SCHLATTER

Production: Théâtre Am Stram Gram and TKM Théâtre Kléber-Méleau.

Representation: Fabrice Melquiot is represented by L'ARCHE- agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com.

Message from the director開く

In an intimate atmosphere, the audience discovers through this poetical solo a piece for these countries that sleep in me; these countries that have become universes, changing like a river, that live and express themselves in me like the burning body of a flame.

On stage, this flame will ignite a magic of images, a library of sound metaphors; a body in dance, in trance, occupying the space, becoming a landscape; the spine of my ancestors, my present and my future.

Director's profile開く

Omar Porras

Born in Bogota. Omar Porras founded the Teatro Malandro in Geneva in 1990. He has directed classical texts including Faust (1993),, Les Bakkantes (2000), El Don Juan (2005), etc, as well as contemporary pieces imcluding Ma Colombine (2019), .

Omar Porras maintains a close relationship with Japan, where he has given several workshops and performed his pieces in the past like Ma Colombine, 2022 (Shizuoka). He has also collaborated and directed with Shizuoka Performing Arts Center the production of Roméo et Juliette, 2012 (Shizuoka), which was also performed in Europe in 2013.