The “director” of Sotteville-lès-Rouen tourist centre – a fictional character played by Jeff Thiebaut – and his assistant “Béatrice” welcomed the students in Atelier 231.
Installing doubt between reality and fiction, the “director” outlined the touristic issues of commissioning a theatre company to reconstruct the death of Emile Petit, French politician who was born in Sotteville-lès-Rouen. All the more so that today, four versions of his death contradict with each other…
The protagonists of this reconstruction paraded in front of the students: President Petit’s son, an unsettled young man fond of bullfighting, an old priest holding his tickling scepter, a spy, an English nurse, a Spanish singer and even President Petit himself.
Délice Dada’s strategy worked wonderfully: the students left confused, unable to distinguish truth from fiction. Has President Petit really existed? Was he really born in Sotteville? Where is the tourism centre? And where is Délice Dada’s artistic director gone??