Were there specific images in the piece inspired by Jephans work?
Patrick: It’s very, very difficult to answer because I saw a lot of exhibitions of Jephan’s work, but I really didn’t want to make the same thing. So I needed a lot of time, a lot of trial and error, and it’s like intuition – I think that’s the best way. Jephan: The extraordinary thing is that I have seen the show ten, fifteen times, and every time I see something new, and I discover little things that are true and that remind me of things that I never told him. The powder, the white powder [referring to a scene where the acrobats throw the puppet boy onto an iron bed and blow white powder into his face] – it’s because I was visited every day by a very old and frightening doctor, and he looked at me and prescribed white powder with water. I had to drink this, and it was horrible, so I hated him. And I told Patrick, White powder, white powder everywhere, and it works very well. You have a singer, a chanteuse. It’s an odd decision perhaps to place a song at the end of the piece, and I wa
