the wizard is not real is a poetic and grotesque journey through sadness and absurdity, an attempt to move through sorrow without freezing it. Soberly equipped with a microphone and a table, lisa laurent cries. What emerges is not a catharsis, but a raw landscape where emotion becomes sound, gesture, and rhythm.
The performance unfolds like a failed symphony of sighs and silences, where fragility becomes a space for both humour and beauty. Through burlesque gestures and futile attempts at normality, lisa laurent exposes the tension between collapse and control, despair and lucidity.
the wizard is not real does not seek resolution. Instead, it lingers in the cracks - transforming discomfort and emotional overflow into fleeting moments of clarity, acceptance, and a more tender relationship with our limits.
conception, performance lisa laurent
dramaturgy Baptiste Cazaux artistic support Thibault Lac
crying coach Piera Bellato music research Nelly Schaub
styling research Elie Autin lights Sélim Dir Melaïzi
sound Gaspard Perdrisat editorial support Pauline Coquart
production administration diffusion during the creation Yamina Pilli oh la la performing art
co-production Théâtre de L’Usine, Théâtre Sévelin36
supports Loterie Romande Ernst Goehner, SIS
remerciements Maman, Papa, Johan, Nicolas, Antoine Weil,
Aude Martino, Mayotte De Saulieu, Giulia Essyad, Morgan Carlier,
Pierre Piton, Lucia Gugerli, Gabriella Imrichova, Isabel Lewis,
Rares Donca, La Ribot, Trixie & Katya