Chronicles of an Explorer 

Is there a secret continuum between a cat video on YouTube and the darkest depths of a neo-Nazi forum? The play Chroniques d’une exploratrice (Chronicles of an Explorer) surveys the new narratives emerging and growing online, to examine how these phenomena lead to a fragmented view of the world. 

Hidden behind user names, theater director Alice Gozlan and creative partner Zacharie Lorent traverse the algorithmic bubbles and forums that dot the vast continent of the web. Using an entertaining set-up, Gozlan recounts and replays her discoveries – at turns funny, absurd or horrifying – reconstructs her explorations, and attempts to pinpoint what can still be called “real” in our utterly online age. 

Chronique d’une exploratrice is a journey into the materiality of the web. In a place full of fabrications, the emotions felt are actually very real. What happens to users navigating the seas of this virtual dimension with very real consequences? 

Cover © Marjolaine Mansot

Production

Directed by: Alice Gozlan and Zacharie Lorent
Text by: Zacharie Lorent and Alice Gozlan
Artistic collaboration: Thibault Pasquier
Outside perspective: Julia De Reyke and Andréa El Azan
Sound design: Nicolas Hadot
Lighting and video design: Simon Anquetil
Costumes and set design: Marjolaine Mansot
Lighting and video operation: Simon Anquetil and Clément Chebli (alternating)
Performance: Alice Gozlan

Production / Co-production:
Production: Compagnie À Point
Co-production: Théâtre Jean Vilar (Vitry-sur-Seine); L’Echalier (Saint-Agil)

Support and residencies:
La Cave à théâtre; Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi; Les Solstices; L’Étoile du Nord; Collectif 12 (Mantes-la-Jolie); Théâtre de Thouars; Théâtre de Vanves; Nouveau Gare au Théâtre (Vitry-sur-Seine)

With the support for creation from DRAC Île-de-France, the Île-de-France Region, and the Val-de-Marne Department.
With the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre National.