RAPHAEL

"Does a scorpion abandon its shell for the night?" — Again and again this same dream... Getting on stage without being prepared, what do we do in these cases? asks the singer Raphaël to the AI of his phone. — Karaoke, the AI answers him. It's your only chance. A band of a popular hit starts at full volume, then interrupts: Sorry you don't have the rights to this song... Karaoke is not an ordinary concert It is a free and hypnotic form, of great formal boldness. A labyrinth where Raphaël gets lost between his songs, ghost covers, and the voice of an omniscient artificial intelligence. On stage, four musicians and an actress, but also mental images that come back to the surface, illusions, and a karaoke that turns into a nightmare. The audience is witness to an inner journey: childhood memories, family ghosts, summoning Bowie or Johnny, real and imaginary crashes. The show oscillates between humor and vertigo, poetry and technological satire. Here, songs are doors that open onto other worlds. A total show, musical and visual, where the truth appears between the words behind the layers of screens. And where, perhaps, the only solution is to dare to let go of your shell. Raphaël