Dementia Praecox

Dementia Praecox is a total and radical creation that explores the fall into madness to talk about "human evils". An insane artist, a nun alienated by her devotion, a failed poet and a rejected lover… Frustration, confinement, social diktats, suicides, eroticism, absurdity, resurrections… Everything comes and goes so fast that it all slips away from them !
Both poetic and moving, Elizabeth Czerczuk's choreographed theatre has its roots in pure emotion and rises to complete madness. She invites the audience to discover a new hybrid language at the crossroad between the voice, the movement and the theatrics. In this cultural melting pot, all tongues are loosened. Elizabeth Czerczuk knocks down the fourth wall and the spectator becomes an actor of the creation.

Staging and choreography: Elizabeth Czerczuk
Original music: Sergio Gruz
Lightning desk and sound controls: Tsiresy Begana, Adrien Colomb
Casting:  Elzbieta Rosa Desbois, Roland Girault, Nadia Glogowski, Yvan Gradis, Erik Karol, Nadezhda Larina, Grzegorz Onyskiewicz, Chantal Pavese, Sarah Pierret, Zbigniew Rola, Roxy R. Théobald, Julien Villacampa Boya Saura, Özge Pelin Tüfekçi

In the press

"Forget about realism: E. Czerczuk wipes out the dramatic conventions and invites you to a powerful and disorienting experience". Mathieu Perez (Le Canard enchaîné, 27th of April 2016)

"The tales of extra-ordinary madness […] This is a kind of 2.0 theatre: troubling, unsettling and even trying. But you come out of this performance with the feeling of having witnessed (and also participated to) a radical performance that few theaters offer nowadays". Richard Caisse (Médiapart)