L'addition

The performance is in English with subtitles.

Two performers, armed with a single scene—or caught in its trap: a customer orders a drink from a waiter. And then things go wrong.

The scene is played out again and again, with nonstop dialogue or in complete silence, until the familiar situation starts to spiral out of control. A nightmarish spiral or a grotesque farce? Roles and power dynamics keep turning upside down, until we no longer know who is the target and who the attacker, who is serving and who is being served.

Directed by Tim Etchells, artistic director of Forced Entertainment, and created with the brilliant performing duo Bert and Nasi, *L’Addition* builds a complex, funny and explosive performance from simple elements. The three play with both the mechanics of theatre and power dynamics—but in the end, someone still has to pay the bill.

This is the English-language version of the original French production, created for the 2023 Festival d’Avignon.