Axomama`s papas English 2015

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Axomama’s papas
de Patrick Sims
Création à l’Automne 2015
Contact Production : Karinne Méraud
Tél. +33 (0)5 53 29 47 42 - Portable +33 (0)6 11 71 57 06
[email protected] - www.ksamka.com
Patrick Sims
Marionnettes, mise en scène, musique, jeu
Josephine Biereye
Masks, marionnettes, costumes, accessoires
Richard Penny
Plateau, Machines
Uri Vilodomiu
Automatons, sound
Video
Raul & ilan
Musique
Patrick sims
Uri
Ergo Phizmiz
Avec :
Patrick Sims
Et 2 marionnettistes
Tells the tale of the origins of the potato and its place in history. First cultivated by pre-columbian
Indians on the mountaintops in the high Andes of Peru, the potato has undergone a most
extraordinary voyage over the millennia to become one of the most important food crops known
to humanity. After the Spanish conquest of Peru and the introduction of the potato to the Western
world, the tuber was feared, mistrusted, disdained and ridiculed.
The potato quickly rose to power in Europe and the Americas. The potato was the food of the
slaves who worked the silver and gold mines of South America, the food of the negro slave in the
American colonies, and was the staple food during the Industrial Revolution. Without the potato,
none of these exploitative endeavors may have taken place. Potatoes have caused population
explosions all over the world since its introduction, and will be the first vegetable taken into
space to colonize the beyond.
Axomama's papas tells the tale of the rise and fall of western civilization through the eyes of the
potato, or papas, as created by the great Inca potato goddess, Axomama.
The tale begins in outer space with a Nasa astronaut cultivating his potatoes in his space station.
Zoom to the Nazca lines, the enigmatic linear formations which can only be seen from space.
These drawing preserved over thousands of years were created by the Nazca people, who were
also the first cultivators of the potato and firm believers in mummifying their dead.
The genesis of the potato will be told by Peruvian mummies, whom with their with dehydrated
corpses, cranial bindings and trepination wounds, mimic the conservation and reproduction
techniques of the potato. They sit, buried in silence beneath the earth of the arid windy plateaus
of Nazca.
They are the original Mr. Potato head family.
Arrival of Pizarro, a kind of conquistador in a Ronald McDonald costume. He is flanked by his
henchmen, whom also reek of capitalism, bad taste and french fry grease.
The potato is taken to Europe and beyond. We meet Auguste Parmentier and learn of his
miraculous cure for the famine in France with the potato. Marie Antoinette's head rolls off the
guillotine block with a potato flower in her hair. The tuber is embraced and cultivated beyond
reason.
Enter the potato famine in Ireland, which because of its disasterous outcome, gave rise to the
beginning of the insecticdes industry and the genetically modified spud.
Its rhizomatic family tree becomes exploited beyond expectation.
Without the potato, the earth would not have so many people who need the potato.
Meanwhile Axomama is still buried in the dirt on her plateau, witnessing the earth surface
transform thanks to the nourishment provided by her progeny.
The Nazca lines glow and illuminate a runway for for some kind giant spaceship to land.
Patrick Sims
Septembre 2014
Fiche Technique et Financière
Durée : 1 heure
Jauge : 120 à 150
Possibilité de jouer 2 fois par jour
Cession (Possibilité de jouer 2 fois par jour)
1 représentation 2 500 € HT
2 représentations 4 700 € HT
3 représentations 7 000 € HT
Montage Le jour même
Jeu au 4eme service
3 personnes en tournée
Dimensions Minimum 6m*6m
Défraiement syndeac et voyages pour 5 personnes
Transport du décor location d’un 20 m3 et voyages de Maillet
Arrivée la veille au soir
Contact Production : Karinne Méraud
Tél. +33 (0)5 53 29 47 42 - Portable +33 (0)6 11 71 57 06
[email protected] - www.ksamka.com