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Mika, the boy who couldn't stop crying [2006]

Traducteur(s)
Linda Gaboriau (Auteur féminin)
Public visé
7 and up
Durée
1h00
Nombre de personnages
6 Personnage(s), 2 Femme(s), 4 Homme(s), 6 Acteur(s)
Original
  • Original en français par Pascal Chevarie sous le titre de Mika, l'enfant pleureur [2004] (Dramaturges Éditeurs, 2005) 12.95$ (Traduction en espagnol par Silvia Pérez Amador de Castro sous le titre: (Mika, El niño que no podía dejar de llorar) aussi disponible)
    • Théâtre Bouches Décousues, 22 janvier 2005
    • Ce texte a été présenté en lecture publique par le CEAD, le 4 décembre 2004.
Résumé
Mika is a young dreamer who can't seem to stop his tears. When he hears of an enormous volcano that threatens to destroy life as we know it, he gets a big idea. He'll use his tears to drown the menace and save the earth. He departs on a quest to find this gigantic volcano. On his journey through a dusty, war-torn landscape, empty of adults, he makes unexpected friends with a spunky young girl, Zazou, and a determined young boy, Noubi. Together they overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. They encounter war, fear, opposition and self-doubt. However, they never lose faith in their mission. In a celebratory and unexpected climax, they quell the volcano with joy, not tears.
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Extrait
« MIKA : But there's only three of us. We're only three children! / NOUBI : If people can't count on children, who can they count on? Besides, other people will hear us. They'll come. And they'll ask: why are you trying to make the earth shake with your naughty little children's feet? And we'll tell them: we're playing at shaking up the world. We're playing at believing in dreams, and extinguishing volcanoes. And they'll see themselves in us. And there will be more than three of us, there will be four, then six, then a hundred, and before long, a thousand! And the earth will shake for real! / ZAZOU : And all the volcanoes will shatter into thousands of pieces. »
Revue de presse
« The text of Pascal Chevarie packs a very powerful poetic charge... Theatre for young audiences has undeniably found a new, strong, and original voice, a voice worth celebrating… » Michel Bélair, Le Devoir, November 15, 2005  « Simple and poetic, Pascal Chevarie's text allows its audience to consider provocative subjects - columns of refugees, disappearances, abandonment - without erasing hope or humour… Stripped down without being bare, simple without being simple-minded, Mika takes on a grave subject with optimism. » Christian Geiser, La Presse, November 13, 2005 « [In this play] the children in the audience don't waver for a second. Because it's well written. Because in every moment there's a little touch of humour that helps the children to relax, to smile. But the play doesn't try to curry favour with them. Not for a second. They are offered something intelligent that is absolutely at their level. » Catherine Perrin, Radio-Canada, September 23, 2005 « At a crucial moment of the show, when Mika invites us to listen to the rumbling of the volcano from the earth, the children in the audience began to stomp on the ground with their feet to the rhythm of the tam-tam that was playing. A particularly magical moment of theatre… When the final line announced that the play was over, a young audience member called out a brief ‘No!'- a heartfelt cry expressing her refusal that the march of Mika should end. » Josée Plourde, Radio-Canada, November 12, 2005
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