La période d'exploitation au Théâtre est terminée.
Hotel Nevrotik
Arthur Rimbaud stated: « Nothing but falseness is beautiful, falseness alone is amiable. » A certain false theatricality fascinates me, makes me laugh and disturbs me. I wish to continue my work on cross-dressing and transformed voice, broaching it in different ways. This is why, alongside charismatic Antoine Kahan, I shall try to personify the truth of the artifice…
From unpublished songs by Michel Rivgauche and others, on the melancholy and refined music by Jean-Pierre Stora, I asked Christian Siméon to invent a baleful and pathetic story: the strange tale of an old lady devastated by life, alone in a room on the sea-front, who offers to a pretty and annoying young groom a funereal and tricky contract.
It all sounds like a vertiginous theatre within the theatre of human clichés, but it also is a quirky and poignant tribute to the great chanson française. As Jean Genet used to say: « My visible life was but a well-concealed dissimulation » …
Michel Fau
Direction Michel Fau
Plot and dialogues Christian Siméon
Songs Michel Rivgauche, Julie Daroy, Pascal Bonafoux, Jean-François Deniau, Christian Siméon, Hélène Vacaresco, Claude Delecluse et Michelle Senlis
Music Jean-Pierre Stora
Set Emmanuel Charles
Costumes David Belugou
Lighting Joël Fabing
Make-up Pascale Fau
Wig Laure Talazac
Assistant to the director Damien Lefèvre
With
Michel Fau and Antoine Kahan
Piano Mathieu El Fassi
Accordion Laurent Derache
Violoncello Lionel Allemand
Production Scène conventionnée pour le Théâtre et Théâtre Musical - Figeac / Saint-Céré - Festival de Théâtre de Figeac
Corealisation C.I.C.T. - Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
MYRA / Rémi Fort and Valentine Arnaud
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OPUS 64 / Valérie Samuel and Christophe Hellouin
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