Dramaturgy and artistic support: Baptiste Cazaux & Thibault Lac

the wizard is not real is a poetic and grotesque journey through sadness and absurdity, an attempt to move through sorrow without freezing it. Soberly equipped with a microphone and a table, lisa laurent cries. What emerges is not a catharsis, but a raw landscape where emotion becomes sound, gesture, and rhythm. The performance unfolds like a failed symphony of sighs and silences, where fragility becomes a space for both humour and beauty. Through burlesque gestures and futile attempts at normality, lisa laurent exposes the tension between collapse and control, despair and lucidity.

the wizard is not real does not seek resolution. Instead, it lingers in the cracks—transforming discomfort and emotional overflow into fleeting moments of clarity, acceptance, and a more tender relationship with our limits.