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Cécile

Marion Duval

14 & 15.03.2025
Theatre

In this one-woman show brilliantly orchestrated by Marion Duval, performer Cécile Laporte, who is also an activist, hospital clown and so much more, tells us about her many experiences. With a great deal of self-mockery, she shares her intimate confessions – which are packed with delicious anecdotes – with the audience in a frank and direct way.

The idea was born of an observation: Cécile makes the people around her blossom. Marion Duval, the director behind the idea of the show, wanted to present this friend to the public as if she were a gift. She asked her to share her adventures, memories, and offered her a stage and an audience. As her story unfolds, we discover her insatiable appetite for life and her desire to go beyond the limits that characterize her relation to life. 

Delving into her extraordinary life story, she questions, with impressive oratorical mastery, the relationship between the imperatives of modern life and the ancestral need to belong. Thanks to an everlatent sense of self-mockery and the strange, comic happenings that punctuate the show, time flies by at dizzying speed.

A show that is bound to leave you staggered.

Calendar

  • - 19:00
    Sold out
  • - 20:00
    Sold out

Information

Language

fr

Duration

3hr

Venue

Salle Jacques Huisman

Kids

16 +

Price

€9 > €21

Cast

Performance
Cécile Laporte

Direction
Marion Duval

Concept
Marion Duval
Luca Depietri (Kkuk)

Dramaturgy
Adina Secretan

Costume and puppetry
Severine Besson

Sound and music
Olivier Gabus

Set design and lighting
Florian Leduc

Collaboration on set design
Djonam Saltatni
Iommy Sanchez

Video, stage management
Diane Blondeau

Assistance, singing, acting and stage management
Louis Bonard

Acting and stage management (alternating)
Sophie Lebrun
Maxime Gorbatchevsky
Papi
Marion Duval

Lighting direction
Vicky Althaus

3D animation
Iommy Sanchez
Lauren Sanchez Calero

Images
Felix Bouttier

Distribution
Anthony Revillard

Administration
Laure Chapel

Production
Chris Cadillac

Coproduction
Théâtre Arsenic, Lausanne, Théâtre St Gervais, Genève

Support 
Pro Helvetia – Fondation Suisse Pour La Culture, Loterie Romande, Pour-Cent Culturel Migros, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Fondation Engelberts

Research support
La Manufacture - Recherche Et Développement, Fondation Erbprozent, Kkuk

Mathilda Olmi
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