Compagnie Quasi

A story of angels, featuring some lonely characters with their profiles, logins and unlikely avatars, scattered in various places, real or virtual, material or electronic, but permanently linked – that’s the etymology of the word ‘religion’ – by the means of tele-presence.

The play is performed on three stages simultaneously, in three differently sized places of varying nature, close to and/or distant from each other, in France or abroad.

Quasi and its “data drama” propose to share the experience of their first public device for networking through games, the theater and humanity. A story of angels and loneliness in the vicinity of “sociology of the imaginary”, performed by a community of loners and their avatars, scattered on various simultaneous stages, in several places, real or virtual, material or electronic, but permanently linked by pictures and the internet. It is a reflection of uses and users of sociality at a distance, a kind of presence towards the other, wherein reality is questioned as a combination of doing and imagining doing, on a cloud of transfer and communication. On each of these three stages, an actor is physically present, connected to the other two, as well as to filmed and drawn characters, by the means of tele-presence.

Quasi Cie - Alain Béhar
Dolores Davias – administrator •  quasicie@gmail.com 
Alain Behar •  alain9behar@gmail.com 

Co-production: Quasi Cie • Bois de L'Aune, Artistic and Cultural department of Communauté du Pays d’Aix • M2F Marseille Provence 2013 Creation, European Capital of Culture • Le Périscope, Nîmes.
Support and residency: Centre national des écritures du spectacle / La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon • Réseau en scène Languedoc-Roussillon
Sponsored by: Ministry of Culture and Communication, Drac Languedoc-Roussillon • Région Languedoc-Roussillon • Conseil général de l’Aude 

Stage Director: Alain Béhar 
Text: Alain Béhar & Vincenzo Susca
Performers:  Renaud Bertin, Valentine Carette, Dolores Davias, Mathilde Gautry, Julien Mouroux, François Tizon 
Scenography and images: Karin Andersen, Raymonde Couvreu and Alain Béhar
Music Designer: Marc Siffert 
Hypermedia creation: Ivan Chabanaud, Stéphane Cousot, Benoit Belbroucq 
Light Designer: Marie-Christine Soma 
Stage Managers: Eric Hennaut, Richard Ferrari, Marc Siffert