About the Show

A family attempts to come together for dinner amidst chaos and natural disaster.

Magical and profound, Dimanche gives fantastical theatrical form to our precarious existence. Winds blow, rain falls, and the storm has only just started. Three wildlife reporters try to document the last wild animals on Earth. Meanwhile, in the heart of a quiet metropolis, one family is determined to have their usual Sunday dinner.

Spinning dreamlike fiction and humor with urgent reality, Belgium’s Cie Focus & Cie Chaliwaté weave together low-fi effects, video, puppetry, and clowning in a wondrous work of physical theater.

Critic Reviews (3)

CRITIC'S PICK!:" 'Dimanche' — ingenious, horrifying — suggests an alternative: Sometimes, you just have to laugh."
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"The effects of climate change are dramatized throughout, in melting icebergs and oppressive heat, in tornadoes and hurricanes and flooding...The end result is a piece that challenges us to look at what is happening to our planet, at what we are doing to the natural world, and to ourselves."
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Like the earlier work [about climate change at BAM], “Dimanche” is 75 minutes long, largely wordless, and full of clever stagecraft meticulously executed, integrated with video, using humor and spectacle to comment about climate change. “Dimanche” is more direct about the effects, and thus, although as entertaining as a masterful circus act, more devastating. And it also has some magnificent puppetry!
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