Raymond Queneau wrote Exercices de style in 1947. It is based on the OuLiPo principle: constraints as a creative engine.
In his work, he wrote 99 different recreations of the same one page story to demonstrate this. This book is one we can dip in and out of, flicking from one text to another. Following this,
we created a show that freed spectators from their seats
and invited them to interact with the stage area.
They were into the play. We created a show which was
a scenographic bus ride throughout school. Each bus stop was
a scene corresponding to one text. They were split into two groups for two different paths which sometimes joined. The spectators lived different experiences: passive or immersive, where their reactions were crucial.

There were ten of us working together on this project. We shared all the scenes, organisation, communication, security,
and recruitment of volunteers, but each of us was assigned
to our own scene to work on.

On the night the performance, we were divided into bus drivers (who lead the groups of spectators), driver coordinators (who tracked the drivers’ progress so that the groups would join at the same time), and technical assistants (the «ticket inspectors», who checked stages all along the show).

We were helped by actors and volunteers to welcome
the spectators, take pictures and shoot the video.