The first part of a triptych in which ceramic is both the material and the gesture of an investigation into our worlds in the making, a journey through our ways of believing and doing together, Qui som? is a wager: that dreaming is an exploratory and transformative power, an imaginary force that overflows each of us to link us to other presences, a way of orienting ourselves in obscure journeys, in secret lands. It’s a struggle. It’s alive. In colour. In clay. In plastic. In scraps and eternity.

“Our inner worlds, our intimate territories, are the breeding ground for the social landscapes to come. So if what’s to come is already here, inside our bodies, if it’s already being made inside us, we’re trying to highlight what keeps the joy, the desire, what resists, sings and dances inside us forever, to give ourselves the courage to see ourselves and not forget the worst.”

Barbara Métais Chastanier and Camille Decourtye for Baro d’evel

Authors: Camille Decourtye and Blaï Mateu Trias

With Lucia Bocanegra, Noëmie Bouissou, Camille Decourtye, Miguel Fiol, Dimitri Jourde, Chen-Wei Lee, Blaï Mateu Trias or Claudio Stellato, Yolanda Sey, Julian Sicard, Marti Soler, Maria Caroline Vieira, Guillermo Weickert.

Collaboration in directing: Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis / Mal Pelo
Collaboration in dramaturgy: Barbara Métais-Chastanier
Musical Collaboration: Pierre-François Dufour
Set design and costumes: Lluc Castells
Lighting design: María de la Cámara and Gabriel Paré / Cube.bz
Musical collaboration and sound creation: Fanny Thollot
Material / colour research: Bonnefrite
Ceramic percussion engineer: Thomas Pachoud

Technical management: Romuald Simmoneau
Ceramist: Sébastien De Groot
Ceramic stage management: Benjamin Porcedda
Stage management: Mathieu Miorin
Lights management: Enzo Giordana
Sound management: Cholé Levoy
Dresser: Alba Viader
Cook: Ricardo Gaiser

Managing director / Promotion: Laurent Ballay
Production administrator: Caroline Mazeaud
Production manager: Pierre Compayré
Administration assistant: Élie Astier

Photos: François Passerini and Salavdor Sunyer

Production: Baro d’evel

Coproduction: Festival d’Avignon, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie, Festival GREC de Barcelona, Festival les Nuits de Fourvière, Festival Romaeuropa, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine Saint Denis, Le Grand T, Théâtre de Loire-Atlantique, Scène Nationale d’Albi-Tarn, Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, Comédie de Genève, Les théâtre Aix-Marseille / Grand Théâtre de Provence, Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées, Centro Cutlural Belem Lisbon, Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Bruxelles, Festival la Strada Graz, Théâtre de Liège, CDN de Normandie-Rouen, Les Célestins théâtre de Lyon, Scène nationale du Sud Aquitain, Équinoxe scène nationale de Châteauroux, Tandem scène nationale de Douai-Arras, Scène nationale de l’Essone, Théâtre Sénart-Scène nationale, Le Volcan – scène nationale du Havre, Théâtre d’Orléans / Scène nationale, Le Grand R, La Roche sur Yon, Théâtre Châtillon Clamart, Malakoff scène nationale, Théâtre Les Gémeaux Scène nationale – Sceaux, Cirque Théâtre Elbeuf PNC Normandie, SQY scène nationale de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines.

With the help of L’animal a l’esquena à Celrà, CIRCa, PNC Auch Gers Occitanie, La Grainerie, le théâtre Garonne scène européenne et La nouvelle Digue, Toulouse

With the support of the DGCA, Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Haute-Garonne County Council The company is is under financial agreement with Ministry of Culture and Communication – Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Occitania / Pyrenees – Mediterranean and the Region Occitania / Pyrenees Mediterranean. It receives operational funding from the City of Toulouse.

With the support of ARTCENA – Écrire pour le cirque