Handpicked from the same theatre lineup, scored for this weekend.
THEATRE
In the Corridor
An octogenarian couple navigates daily life: he suffers chronic back pain and weak eyesight, she wears a hearing aid and dentures. Jean-Pierre Darroussin stars.
THEATRE
Baby Needs Purging
Play by Georges Feydeau, directed by Emeline Bayart. A porcelain manufacturer invites a powerful government official to lunch, with farcical consequences.
THEATRE
Little Poems in Prose
A passer-through the tumult: Baudelaire and the modern city. Little Poems in Prose summons modernity through Baudelaire's keen gaze upon urban life and its transformations.
COMEDY
En Attendant Le Divorce, Marions-Nous !
Suite à un malentendu, Nino, qui ne veut pas se marier, demande Nina en mariage. Comment revenir en arrière quand il a fait sa demande ?Il faut : trouver des excuses ? Oui. Avoir de bons arguments ? Aussi.
COMEDY
Why Do Women Love Jerks?
Comedy exploring why Louis, the ideal son-in-law, fails to charm his dates despite being kind, tidy and well-mannered.
THEATRE
49.3 Shades of Laughter
Political satire at Theatre des Deux Anes where Régis Mailhot, Karine Dubernet and others skewer politics, media and society with sharp humour.
COMEDY
Marc Rougé Returns On Site
Rougé's solo show, directed by Maxime Seynave, explores the impulse to abandon everything and start anew through his own career reinvention, delivered with self-deprecating humour.
KIDS
The Cid Blows a Fuse
A comic deconstruction of classical French drama. The director took his children to Molière's The Miser and asks: what if we made the classics actually funny? A playful romp through theatrical convention.