A musical theater performance resulting from the work of a collective of artists working between theater and music, Nocturnal Bestiary intends to offer an opportunity to learn about a great 20th-century author by taking unusual paths: an experiment aimed at discovering new ways of producing and enjoying musical theater.

Night opens a curtain: it suspends the laws of daytime reality; its figures, invisible in sunlight, take the stage. An old hourly hotel is the only open place in the city; it is here that a woman enters; she sits in silence, obsessively looking at her cell phone in an attempt to distract herself from her desperate loneliness. She has escaped from a Poulenc opera, La voix humaine, with the intention of writing a different ending. A carousel of real and dreamlike characters comes to life among the dusty tables, dancing around the woman's melancholy. The late hour, mutual estrangement and casual proximity, intoxication and dream loosen the meshes of the real by granting it a space of unwarranted confidence, creating the occasion for otherwise impossible encounters.