A play by Marc Lainé, Vanishing Point questions the possibility of representing a road trip on stage.
Road novels and road movies are literary and cinematographic genres that belong to the American counter-culture (Kerouac’s On the Road or Terence Malick’s The Wild Ride, for example) but the landscapes we cross are first and foremost metaphorical spaces: far from any realism, a road trip on stage is necessarily a mental journey, a phantasmatic jaunt through imaginary landscapes.
Rock music is obviously associated with road-trips and it is therefore the group Moriarty who wrote the soundtrack of this road trip, a “B.O.” which they interpret on stage and which constitutes an essential element of the narration.