How can reality interfere with fiction? Anne-Sophie Turion answers that question by inviting around fifteen local residents to participate in her performance as extras in their own story. Grandeur Nature is first and foremost an adventure about collecting experiences and meeting people. To build the framework of what will become a story, she immerses herself in the daily life of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood for two weeks. By asking them questions, trying to unveil the hidden side of this place where multiple intimate stories and daily routines entwine, by capturing the heartbeat of the neighbourhoods, she builds a scenario that will become a walk through an urban score. Between intimate and common landscapes, rooted in the historical, urban and social characteristics of the location, she brings back to the surface the places that have disappeared, the past as well as the imagined future, the different generations, the changes and scars, the buildings and the ghosts.

In this theatre of the everyday, the walking route is at the heart of the story, with the scenery and landscape moving along while the performer narrates, until the real narrator slips into reality, appearing and disappearing throughout the walk. As the voice-over murmurs into the ears of the fifty headphone-wearing spectators, the fictional story meets an unexpected “augmented reality”. Between intimacy and everyday life, modesty and proximity, incarnation and secrecy, this human-scale performance will take us into the everyday and natural theatricality of these two neighbourhoods of Rennes.