My Life Under the Tents - Theatre

Show & Culture

Jeff Schinker, with Pitt Simon, presents a creation directed by Jacques Schiltz, with set and costume design by Michèle Tonteling, lighting by Antoine Colla and dramaturgy by Karolina Markiewicz. You live in the city, pay rent, and know the story: bankers in suits, a minister discussing carbon emissions after returning from a private-jet trip, and an estate agent concealing mould stains behind the price per square metre. But what if there were another way out, perhaps even a counterculture? The performance presents the results of more than fourteen years of experimentation at festival sites across Europe, among dubious hotels, patched-up tents and vans. It explores the idea that a tent is a deliberate choice, that friendship is an infrastructure and an act of resistance, and that the present can be rebuilt.