The Journey to the moon

The Earth goes around the Sun, the Earth goes around itself, the Moon goes around the Earth, the civil service goes around its rules, Love goes round and round, our certainties go round in circles and human beings go round and round themselves.

In Le Voyage dans la Lune, the people living on the Moon like those living on Earth are convinced that the Others do not exist, that no other planet is inhabited and they are the only creatures of the Universe. Each planet has its own well-oiled system and each planet intends to keep it that way.

 And yet, a fickle young man and an unconventional princess will interrupt this perpetual cycle and their encounter will spark off an unprecedented revolution in the solar system.

A volcano will erupt, has the world been destroyed? Not really, after all, meeting the Others whose existence we denied simply offers a new perspective and a little hindsight on this Earth and its unchanging system.

This is a very ‘down to earth’ paradox: our societies and cultures, especially in the Western world, are convinced that they have gone all around the world and know everything. It is hard for us to envisage other cultures and other codes to live by.

This is the true meaning of this Voyage dans la Lune when it was created. Today, I would like to show our world in a new light, through what makes us laugh in the opera, because what makes us laugh is both grotesque and full of fantasy and knows how to make fun gentle of human beings and their vanity, their systems, and fears.

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