Echec Mycose - Cie Pluton

Brought up in conservative rural Switzerland, Alice and Ulysse are now a queer duo from the fields, funny, handy and militant. Inspired by a news item about the exclusion of trans women from international women's chess competitions, and by Léa Rivière's poem Je suis pas trans dans la forêt (I'm not trans in the forest), the pair have written a madcap musical in a Do It Yourself vein.
On stage, mediocre lecturers, geraniums, monsters and travellers lost in space each have their own stories to tell, their own forest to cross, their own quest to complete and their own transition to manage - be it spatio-temporal, chemical, generational or gender-based. What do they all have in common? They're all part of the same chess game. Representing positive queer trajectories rooted in the rural landscape, Cie Pluton models a new reading of the living, as an alternative to the cis-heteropatriarchal, Western and colonial regime that has categorised ‘nature’ in its own image.