The deer's eye

Documentary theatre in French-speaking Belgium L'œil du cerf - in the middle of what, a forest, a grove, a park in the very heart of the city, on the steep slope of the slag heaps, at the bend in the river, in the middle of a field, somewhere in the thick mystery of the place: a cube, a post, a station. Seven Mulots are on the lookout, stalking the landscape, tracking the senses. It could be that these critters have lost their way and everything else, the memory of the wind on their skin and the pleasure of the grass under their feet. They may have nothing left of the hand-to-hand contact with trees, sky and rivers. Yet it could be that a deer crosses the plain in a rainstorm, a downpour, a thunderstorm. So says Mulot 1. Rien n’est moins sûr. L'œil du cerf is a poetic and musical performance in which spectators are invited to listen to what rustles, what sings, what crawls, what glides: everything that makes up the voice, texture and language of childhood landscapes. Based on Jacques Brel's phrase 'Childhood is above all a geographical notion', Absolu Théâtre has set itself the goal of questioning the part of childhood that, deep down, is not like us. The idea is to meet French-speaking Belgian citizens and ask them about the link between their childhood and the region in which they grew up. All the interviews will be filmed and some will be included in the programme.