International Children’s Festival: Emmanuel Zeesman returns to Ottawa.
A prehistoric, prelinguistic fantasy where Moitié la francophone (Emmanuelle Zeesman) and Please the Anglophone (Sharmila Dey) , wander around in a world of brightly coloured chaos. They grunt, and growl snarl, grab and roar. They have no inkling of civilised behaviour. Most of all they do not possess langauge, at least at first they don’t appear to, and they don’t even know what it is to communicate. They express their basic instincts…like cave people. They are hungry - they grab food and stuff it in their mouth; they are frightened – they protect themselves. They feel threatened – they draw territorial limits. they attack. They freeze they find what they can to cover themselves. They have something they like, they keep it. They have no concept of sharing of helping.
Then the situation evolves. When it gets cold they need to exchange clothes. They are attracted to the other’s toys so they feel the desire to exchange toys. The need for reciprocal comforts makes them try to communicate and eventually to share: Moitié in French, Please in English. Little by little it works.