«The Little Theatre at the End of the World isn't just another show; it's more of an experience, one of those rare and unclassifiable events that leaves its mark on your memory, long afterwards. Behind this title with the flavour of a faraway land, Ézéquiel Garcia-Romeu speaks to us about today's world, caught between our renunciations and our utopias.

An allegory of an overexploited world, a poetic and theatrical performance, Le Petit Théâtre du Bout du Monde disregards the boundaries of space and time. An artist of the infinitesimal, Ézéquiel Garcia-Romeu is a demiurge who reveals an extraordinary world, in a precarious balance between the beauty and brutality of matter.

Here, Le Théâtre de la Massue immediately breaks the codes of performance and invites us to the live construction of a territory in interaction with its audience. On stage, a hazy, rugged landscape emerges, gradually taking shape and being populated by marionettes with sculpted faces. Here and there, these little beings bustle about with strange, sometimes absurd tasks, meticulously participating in a clever little mechanism, immersed in this handcrafted universe made of wood, recycled objects, and string. Throughout the performance, paths of hope emerge within this moving metaphor for our human condition.

With Le Petit Théâtre du Bout du Monde, Ézéquiel Garcia-Romeu deploys a breathtaking emotional force whose incredible resonance with current events embraces and grips us.»

• Adapted from: Élise Ternat, in the Programme of Théâtre Nouvelle Génération – CDN Lyon