Once seven moles, digging their burrows, landed on a theatre stage. And suddenly the spectators could watch these underground creatures living, eating, sleeping, dying, working, giving birth, copulating, having fun and starting a rock band… Seven moles living together – a utopia for a supposedly solitary animal! Night of the Moles plunges the audience into a parallel world, free of words and of humans, a world that was conquered by claws and pickaxes… but also an electric world that vibrates with the underground music we hear in our garages and basements. This is blunt and explosive show. In this plastic and cardboard underground, furnished with styrofoam rocks and wooden shelters, a precarious reality is transposed with poetic rage into the liminal and fantasmatic world of caves. Remnants of ancient myths, the atmosphere of social science fiction films, and the shadows of early cinema are blended together with a punkish glee.  

Philippe Quesne – French director and anthropologist examining post-humanist territories, inviting the viewers to participate in his journey. 

CONCEPT, DIRECTION, SET DESIGN Philippe Quesne 

CAST Yvan Clédat, Jean-Charles Dumay, Léo Gobin, Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher, Sébastien Jacobs, Thomas Suire, Gaëtan Vourc’h 

COSTUMES Corine Petitpierre 
DRAMATURGY Léo Gobin, Lancelot Hamelin, Ismael Jude, Smaranda Olcèse 
PRODUCTION Nanterre-Amandiers – centre dramatique national 
WITH THE SUPPORT OF Institut Français de Pologne 

Accompanying events: 

22nd Sep. 15.00 -  Cave of Forgotten Dreams reż. dir. Werner Herzog 
22nd Sep. 21.00 – Meeting with Philippe Quesne 
23rd Sep. 21.00 – Night visions. A talk on the things visible in the dark 
23rd Sep. 22.00 – Dark Jam Party