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Micromegas is a 120,000 feet tall learned giant from a huge planet called Sirius. He sets off on a journey across the universe "in order to expand his heart and mind". 

On Saturn, the Sirian giant meets a 6,000 feet tall secretary of the Academy of Saturn. Micromegas and the Saturnian discuss the differences between their two planets and decide to travel together. In the solar system, they visit Jupiter, decide to bypass Mars and reach planet Earth. 

Humans are so tiny that their eyes cannot perceive them. Micromegas breaks his necklace and uses one of its diamonds as a microscope. They glimpse a ship packed with philosophers sailing back from the Polar Circle. When Micromegas picks up the ship, the jerking movements of the terrified crew tickle his hand. Humans.

Our two interstellar travellers start to talk to the expedition members who turn out to be intelligent creatures capable of accurately gauging their size. The mites also know the distance between the planets and the weight of air. They all enter into a conversation on science and spirituality.

A little disappointed by the dull minds of the Earthlings, Micromegas and his friend decide to quit Earth and resume their interstellar travels. They leave behind a book supposed to explain “the point of everything”: its pages are blank. 

The Supertroupers have been asked to rewrite the ending of Voltaire’s Micromegas for a stage adaptation of the story.

Tom plays Micromegas.

Iris plays the narrator

Titouan plays an Earthling.

Diane plays the Saturnian.

They set themselves to work… 

… in their own way…

I’m exhausted already…

I’m exhausted already…

All those lines to learn.

"Our traveller had a wonderful grasp of the laws of gravitation…"

Isn’t that right, Tom?

Hey Micromegas! Do you understand gravitation?

Sure!

I got it covered, mate!
All objects free fall at the same rate… 

whatever their mass!

Don’t you mean gravity rather than gravitation?

Galileo’s experiment was about gravity, wasn’t it?

Yep

Hmm...

… "and he glided from globe to globe" …

..."with his crew"…

"...like a bird flying from branch to branch."

Iris !

I do not see how Micromegas could have gone from planet to planet USING gravitation! 

Diane is right, it would make more sense to float in space.

Correct! 
Just look at astronauts in space stations.

But if Voltaire says it, then…

But if Voltaire says it, then…

Voltaire wasn’t NASA, was he?

NASA, NASA…