Audacieux, stimulant et souvent hilarant... Le script de O’Donnell est un complexe serré d’hypothèses existentielles, de ruminations métaphysiques et de blagues potaches.
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[boxhead] : un généticien se réveille avec une boîte en carton scellée sur la tête. Entre clone involontaire, amour impossible et dialogues métaphysiques déjantés, voici une comédie existentielle aussi drôle qu’absurde.
Dr. Thinking: I think it means that our collaboration is destined for great heights and the basking glory of inter-planetary fame and fortune.
Dr. Actions: But you said your dream was terrifying.
Dr. Thinking: Well, I've always been afraid of success.
Dr. Actions: Well, get over it, Blockbrain. Now that we've invented the echoless yell, nothing is going to getin our way. Lay it on me.
Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable to wrench it off, he attempts suicide, not only failing but also, unbeknownst to himself, cloning himself, creating Dr. Wishful Thinking. The two losers fall madly in love, fall in science and fail to make a baby.
The cast consists of the two boxheads, who also play two disembodied narrators. The conversationbetween the four voices, an intricately woven semantic circus, traverses boxedness, love and the more ridiculous areas of metaphysical speculation. Through a series of rapid exchanges, verbal games and musical numbers, they discover that all their thoughts come from God, all their words come from the devil, and their desire for love is a habit acquired from the cinema. Sound familiar? Don't be so hard on yourself.
`Audacious, thought-provoking and frequently hilarious ...a tightly wound complex of existential postulations, metaphysical ruminations and poop jokes.'
- Eye Weekly
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Darren O’Donnell, né en 1965, est un auteur, dramaturge, performeur et planificateur culturel canadien. Il est le directeur artistique de la compagnie Mammalian Diving Reflex, connue pour ses créations théâtrales innovantes et ses projets d’art social. Son œuvre, à la fois littéraire et scénique, explore les frontières entre philosophie, humour et engagement civique. boxhead s’inscrit dans sa démarche de renouvellement des formes narratives et théâtrales.
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O’Donnell écrit comme un génie sous amphétamines à 300 km/h.
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