When faced with assembling a flat-pack piece of furniture, do you follow the instructions in the manual without thinking? Do you take liberties, at the risk of putting it together the wrong way round? Have you ever attempted this task…
with a partner? Etienne Manceau and Mathieu Despoisse embark on this domestic odyssey.
Pling-Klang features this jack-of-all-trades circus duo as they grapple with social norms and expectations, discussing relationships whilst assembling a piece of furniture… as a couple. Does that ring a bell?
You’re invited to a game of Swedish-style ping-pong! Assembling this IKEA flat-pack, as real as it is symbolic, becomes a pretext for intimate revelations, oscillating between humour and seriousness.
Their aim: to solve this puzzle as if it were a romantic entanglement. Will they manage to bring the scattered pieces together to build something that stands up?
co-productions
Équinoxe, National Theatre – Châteauroux / La Coopérative De Rue et De Cirque – Paris / L’Échalier, Atelier de Fabrique Artistique – Saint Agil / Larural, Scène de territoire en Créonnais – Créon / Cirk’Eole – Montigny-les-Metz / Théâtre ONYX, Scène conventionnée – Saint-Herblain / Le Carré Magique, Pôle National Cirque – Brittany / La Plateforme, 2 Pôles Cirque – Normandy / La Brèche – Cherbourg / Le Cirque Théâtre – Elbeuf / The André Malraux Cultural Centre, National Theatre – Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy / UTOPISTES Festival – Lyon / La rose des vents, Lille Métropole National Theatre – Villeneuve d’Ascq / Le Plongeoir, Cité du Cirque, Circus Centre – Le Mans / CIRCa, National Circus Centre – Auch / MiraMiro – Ghent / CircusWerkplaats – Dommelhof / Rotondes – Luxembourg / Trio…S Théâtre – Inzinzac Lochrist / La Mouche – Saint-Genis-Laval / Le Sirque, Pôle National du Cirque – Nexon
