THE AVENIR PREMIERE

Once every 5 years we develop a new large street theatre spectacle and this year it was time again. The interactive performance Avenir is, as Close-Act is renown of, played in and above the audience.
However, this performance cannot be compared to the other performances of Close-Act.

This light/puppet performance brought by actors, dancers, a singer and lots of puppeteers is a completely new project for the group.
The performance was created by many new but also very experienced players who all together completed this enormous task. We are proud of our company that made this performance to what it is today.

AVENIR
It starts with a dream. A creator at work. A professor, central to this story, designs new life. He creates a world full of mechanical creatures: beasts, birds, and mysterious figures with one eye. High above the ground, balancing on an immense ladder, he surveys his creations. The world he created seems perfect, but he longs for more.

The professor decides to create a final masterpiece. A creature with feelings, with a heart. He designs a robot girl and brings her to life with a jolt. His ultimate creation is born. His dream comes true. All his creatures obey him. Some creatures are frighteningly human. Streamlined figures, perfectly formed, but soulless and submissive. A colony of artificial human ants, marching in rhythmic precision.

One of his creations turns out to be a dark, unapproachable ruler. She gains more and more control over the other creatures and controls them from the back of a gigantic four-legged creature. All his creations start to turn against him more and more. What follows is a battle. Between control and freedom. Between the Creator and his creations.

RESTORE ORDER
He decides to restore order and switches off his creations one by one. He also must switch off his dream, his robot girl, with pain in his heart. Then she realizes that she no longer needs her creator.

A happy ending story for the future of Artificial Intelligence
An unhappy ending for mankind

The premiere of the new performance Avenir was made possible in part by the Deventer Op Stelten festival. The fact that the festival programmed our premiere without being seen is evidence of their enormous confidence in our company.
Thank you Deventer Op Stelten