Emmi leaves the farm where he works and chooses the forest, discovering that animal and plant life have worlds of their own. Un Conte Dans Un Arbre draws on George Sand’s Le chêne parlant for a theatrical and musical reading. Written among tales dedicated to her granddaughters, the fable invites children and adults to consider human beings’ place among other living things.
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Fantastique George Sand
George Sand wrote a world where women, long pushed to the margins of legends, guard free speech and an invisible realm. Les Poupées Russes bring that writing into the room as a theatricalised, musical reading held by two actresses and a musician. Reading, song and dance braid until the border between real and fantastic stops holding. The evening joins a trail laid by the médiathèque départementale for the hundred and fiftieth year of her death.
Vaslav Cabaret Theatre
Vaslav is Olivier Normand’s flamboyant cabaret-theatre recital, built around a fantastical persona, lavish make-up and sequins. The solo performance explores fluid identities through humour, theatrical transformation and a voice that moves from baritone to countertenor. A shruti box supplies its hypnotic drone as cult songs and popular music pass through the room. Barbara, Grace Jones and David Bowie meet Schubert, West Side Story, Michel Legrand and even the force of a Bizet aria, creating deliberate collisions between genres and eras. Normand treats the stage as a laboratory for character, sound and poetic androgyny beyond the shape of a conventional song recital. Extravagance never stands alone: fantasy and emotion become tools for questioning fixed roles and celebrating the freedom to shift between them.
Vaille que vaille at Savigny
The Sans Attendre collective revisits the Copiaus troupe in Vaille que vaille, a cabaret commissioned by Maison Jacques Copeau. Actors and comic mischief bring this chapter of Burgundy’s theatre history into the performance. The package pairs the show with estate wine and a regional meal of Cîteaux and Comté gougères, roast pork and apple tart.
Hatiao Club
Hatiao Club begins with Azou, a Breton grandmother whose hidden gathering place draws her grandchildren into a final investigation. Music, song, drawers, bread with butter and domestic clues turn grief into a playful search through family memory. The piece gives contemporary theatre a regional texture through Breton kinship, food detail and oral mystery.
L’HippoCampe: Cabaret des animaux
L’HippoCampe arrives as a travelling theatre drawn by Breton draft horses, carrying a cabaret troupe of actors, circus artists and musicians. Le cabaret des animaux à fleur de peau turns Jean de La Fontaine’s fox, crow, frog, donkey, ant and cicada into comic mirrors of human impulses. Songs, clowning and live music give the fables an irreverent family form, while the horse-drawn stage keeps spectacle and Breton equestrian know-how connected.
Thomas Piet: Koala
Thomas Piet takes apart the lessons in masculinity that follow a boy into adulthood in Koala. His solo show combines comedy and songs while confronting the pressure to hide emotion, reject one’s body and perform virility. Staged by Stéphane Corbin, the Clermont-Ferrand performance explores consent, vulnerability and the possibility of making peace with oneself.
David Sun: Titi
With three medical qualifications behind him, David Sun weighs a medical career against a life on stage in Titi. A breakup leads him towards CrossFit, personal development and comedy, turning a change of direction into the material for his first show. Sun writes and performs the solo comedy in Clermont-Ferrand, directed by Victor Ohmer.
Ariane Brodier: Bonne
In Bonne, Ariane Brodier takes apart the demands placed on women, from the dutiful mother and loyal friend to the person expected to do everything. She draws on her own contradictions and experiences, using self-mockery to question the pressure to be good in every role. Kevin Levy directs this solo comedy in Clermont-Ferrand, co-written by Brodier and Vincent Leroy.
Gaetan Delferiere: Special
Gaëtan Delférière turns memories of being left out at school into Spécial, a solo comedy performed in Clermont-Ferrand. He builds his outsider persona around a mixed Belgian and French background, geek culture and the experience of never fitting in. Dark humour and absurdity shape his comic revenge on behalf of the children pushed to the margins of the playground.