For the aerialists, musicians, high-wire and trapeze artists of Les Colporteurs , life is lived vertically, horizontally and in the round. Music is played by upside down musicians.
Tables stand on end.
Chandeliers and chairs fly. Since its acclaimed opening in 1997, the show has gone on to tour throughout France, Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium. Shunning society, a lonely anarchist chooses to settle in the tree tops, refusing to come down. The production's original musical score by Carl Schlosser, together with imagistic poems written by the cast reflect on universal issues of transcendence and freedom. Mediating between earth and sky, Les Colporteurs transforms this story with grace and wit, welcoming us on a poetic journey of dizzying acrobatics, bravura high-wire work, and magical incantations.