Membrane

Membrane is the first queer science fiction novel in Chinese, written in 1995 by Taiwanese author Chi Ta-wei, a fervent defender of LGBTQ+ rights. The story takes place in a distant future where ecology is disrupted by capitalism and the earth’s surface is nothing more than industries and battlefields. Humanity had to settle in underwater cities where it could reconnect with the pleasures of the spirit and the flesh. Sexuality and gender have acquired a stunning fluidity. While identities and bodies are in constant metamorphosis, a fundamental question arises: what defines the human being?

After Olga Ravn’s Employees last season, Cédric Delorme-Bouchard continues his approach to stage writing around futuristic universes. The director and scenographer transposes this innovative text to the stage, in a sensitive adaptation by Rébecca Déraspe. Between shadow and light, dystopia and utopia, the piece performed by six exceptional performers explores with humanity the notions of identity and free will. A work with powerful resonance with today’s world.