Tromper la faim des fins : la pièce-machine et l’action infinie Étude diachronique de deux fins de spectacle sans fin, Langhoff-Gehlker (1996-2016)

Île du salut by Matthias Langhoff, based on Kafka’s In the Penal Colony (1996), and Le Vide, Essai de cirque by Fragan Gehlker, Alexis Auffray, and Maroussia Diaz Verbèke (2014) both refuse to end. This article puts these two cases of final subversion of the show’s ritual in the framework of their genesis and their reception and identifies the components of a dramaturgy of the anti-ending.