THE SMALLEST THINGS

Following Préparation pour un miracle in 2023, Marc Oosterhoff returns to Comédie de Genève, this time alongside Owen Winship, with a new creation that once again works directly with the constraints of theatrical space in order to conjure the unexpected.

On an almost bare stage, inhabited only by a handful of objects, lighting projectors and a loudspeaker, two performers construct before our eyes—concealing nothing—the very substance of a performance: a sense of wonder born from modest feats and a paradoxical illusion entirely created in full view of the audience.

To create from nothing—save for the most ordinary, the most minute of things—such is the challenge at the heart of The Smallest Things, a work that plays with and orchestrates our emotions as spectators, and with our willingness to surrender to illusion, even when every mechanism behind it is laid bare before us.

Through their acrobatic technique, subtle manipulations of sound and light carried out on stage, and fragments of text in English and French of their own writing, Winship and Oosterhoff unfold the fragile poetry that emerges from the very act of making, creating and piecing together a performance.