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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

Relaxed performance on 01.12.2024 at 15:00

Relaxed performances offer an inclusive and caring welcome. They aim to make it easier for the broadest possible audience to come to the theatre, including those with special needs or sensitivities.

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