L'Effet de Serge

Philippe Quesne/Vivarium Studio (France)

Australian Premiere

‘L'Effet de Serge...demonstrates how the simplest object, the merest gesture, can produce wonder.' The Village Voice

Meet Serge. Every Sunday he entertains his friends with a parade of homespun spectacles, animating everything around his basement and putting some magic back into their lives.

With a nod to Jacques Tati, Samuel Beckett and Mr Bean, L'Effet de Serge is a haunting and humorous tribute to the pleasures and necessity of making art.

From the experimental Vivarium Studio in Paris, Serge has been embraced by audiences across 20 countries.

His universe may be small, his rituals seem ordinary, but L'Effet de Serge will make you love the world a little more.

Performed in English. Latecomers will not be admitted. 

Conceived, directed and designed by: Philippe Quesne
With: Gaëtan Vourc'h, Isabelle Angotti, Rodolphe Auté, Cléo Quesne Esturgie and local guests

A co-production with Ménagerie de Verre, Paris with the support of Le Forum, scene conventionnee de Blanc-Mesnil and Festival actOral montevideo, Marseille

Vivarium Studio is supported by DRAC Ile de France (French Ministry of Culture). It receives the support of Institut français - Ministères des Affaires étrangères et européennes for its foreign tours.

Premiered in November 2007 at Ménagerie de Verre - Paris 

Since its creation in 2007, L'Effet de Serge has been presented about 150 times in 22 different countries.