Avenir
Design new life
AVENIR
A futuristic street theatre spectacle.
The battle between order and control versus freedom and consciousness. 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.
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. He decides to restore order and switches off his creations one by one. He also has to switch off his dream, his robot girl, with pain in his heart. Then she realizes that she no longer needs her creator.