, a physical theatre collaboration between the Belgian companies Focus and Chaliwaté, yet it’s a call to action on climate change that is more persuasive than most.
It cuts through by using a playful mix of puppetry, lo-fi special effects, acrobatics - and a few incongruous Paul Simon songs - to show up human beings as the clowns, carrying on as normal as the clocks literally melt on our walls. A polar bear and its cub encounter the consequences of global warming during one vignette in Dimanche.Even the understated title of the work - French for ‘Sunday’ - connotes how late in the game we are when it comes to global warming, and how leisurely most of us are taking it.
This absurd, uneasily amusing and occasionally terrifying series of vignettes contains some unforgettable images. Tenderly puppeteered polar bears and migratory birds face their climate reckoning. An inner-city tornado blows Sunday dinner off the table, as the family around it try with increasing dexterity to pretend nothing untoward is happening.
Keeping too cool in the climate crisis: the writers, directors and stars of Dimanche, Julie Tenret, Sandrine Heyraud and Sicaire Durieux.One blinkered bozo even tries to sleep in his bed even as fish are nibbling at his toes, and a shark swims through his living room.for tweenagers and teenagers.