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Neverland David Léon | | | Actes du théâtre n° 94.
| | Neverland is like a reverie, a phantasmatic journey around the legendary figure Michael Jackson. The play, constructed like a kaleidoscope, focuses on the relationship between two young adolescents, Jimmy and Mikaël, an ambiguous relationship that dances between the real facts and how they are transformed by the imagination. Numerous "twins" gravitate around them, doubles – children or adults –fascinated by the iconic singer, while a voice periodically analyzes who Michael was in comical scientific language. The play is also haunted by the shadow of Jackson's father and by his wounded childhood. David Léon deals with the issue of child abuse (already present in Un Batman dans ta tête and Sauver la peau) and of the body as a place of suffering, of tenderness and love, of displaying and offering, and of the quest for self-knowledge. Racism, identity disorders and sexuality also run through the play, which can be taken as profane, funk requiem.
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| "Michael Jackson was not just a child prodigy, an extraordinary singer, musician and dancer; he was also the human side between adulthood and childhood, a black man who got away from his own people, perhaps a feminine face, one of the living dead in a flotation tank, a little boy exploited and abused by his father, and a pedophile that scandalized American courtrooms. David Léon has drawn from all that material."
La cause littéraire, Marie du Crest.
"Too much silence surrounds David Léon's writing. It's time to break that silence and get this writer - whose words are not for nothing - in front of a mike on France Culture. Words that bore into you, imploding your thoughts and fragmenting your awareness with relentlessness and virtuosity."
Joëlle Gayot, Changement de décor, France Culture, March 16, 2014
"David Léon's writing creates a powerful effect, heightened by the unusual rhythm of the punctuation that shatters the equilibrium of his phrases. The writing is constantly crisscrossed by echoes, shouting and clamor, far-off echoes of the world's chaos. It is the materialization of speech and, beyond that, of the written word."
Jean-Pierre Han, Frictions, February 3, 2015
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| Opened at Théâtre Ouvert in May 2016. |
| Characters: 1 women - 7 men -
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