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Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles

Les Gros patinent bien
Cabaret de carton
Olivier Martin-Salvan 
Pierre Guillois

27.11 > 07.12.2024
Theatre – Cabaret

One of them, a rounded man, has settled on a cardboard box in the middle of the stage – a box he won’t move from throughout the performance. In made-up English, he recounts the incredible tale of a man – his ancestor? – who was cursed centuries ago by a mermaid in a fjord on the Faroe Islands. The other, sickly and wearing swimming trunks, demonstrates awe-inspiring inventiveness – beside, around, above – to illustrate the stages of this anti-hero’s incredible journey through time and Europe. The box becomes a bicycle, a motorbike, an aeroplane; the actors draw on the comic impulse of slapstick, mime and clowning. Evolving in a make-shift set, the unlikely pair lead the audience into a fable that is at once tender and burlesque, a tribute to artisanal theatre. Inherently popular and playful, their cardboard cabaret reveals the strength and magic of this ephemeral art form as well as its poetic delicacy. 

Copresentation Les Halles de Schaerbeek (as part of the Festival HP24), Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles

For exceptional reasons, the performances from 27.11 > 01.12.2024 are cancelled. Ticket holders will be contacted directly by the box office for a refund. 

Calendar

  • - 20:00
  • - 20:00

    Introduction · 19:30

  • - 20:00
  • - 19:00
  • - 15:00
  • - 14:00
  • - 19:00

    Discussion after show

  • - 20:00
  • - 20:00
  • - 19:00

Information

Language

fr

Duration

1hr20

Venue

Grande salle

Price

€9 > €21

Cast

A performance by
Olivier Martin-Salvan
Pierre Guillois

With
Week 1
Olivier Martin-Salvan
Clément Deboeur

Week 2
Olivier Martin-Salvan
Edouard Penaud

alternating with
Pierre Guillois

Technical direction
Colin Plancher

Cardboard engineering
Charlotte Rodière

Props
Emilie Poitaux

Sound design
Loïc Le Cadre

Costume advice
Coco Petitpierre

Tour assistant
Thylda Barès

Stage Manager
Jérôme Pérez Lopez
alternating with
Colin Plancher

Stage management
Elvire Tapie
alternating with
Cécile Jaillard

Administration - Production
Sophie Perret
Fanny Landemaine
Margaux du Pontavice
Louise Devinck

Internationale distribution
Christelle Fleury

Distribution
Séverine André-Liebaut - Séverine Diffusion

Communication
Anne-Catherine Minssen - ACFM Les Composantes

Production
Compagnie Le Fils du Grand Réseau

Coproductions
Ki M’Aime Me Suive, Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest, Carré du Rond-Point, Le Quai - CDN Angers Pays de la Loire, Tsen Productions, CDN de Normandie – Rouen, Le Moulin du Roc, Scène nationale à Niort, Comédie de Picardie, CPPC - Théâtre l’Aire Libre

Support
Fonds SACD Humour/One Man Show, La Région Bretagne, Le Centquatre – Paris, Théâtre Sénart, Scène nationale

Acknowledgements
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Espace Carpeaux – Courbevoie, Théâtre des Quartiers d’Ivry – CDN du Val-de-Marne, Malakoff scène nationale

Compagnie Le Fils du Grand Réseau is supported by the Ministère de la Culture – DRAC de Bretagne

Fabienne Rappenneau
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