Bâtards

Presented by Le Théâtre Lepic

BÂTARDS IS THE STORY OF A SHOW THAT FAILED BECAUSE OF A BREAKUP. A play by Louise Dupuis Direction: Louise Dupuis With: Thomas Gourdy, Lucile Oza, Lise Lomi, Louise Dupuis, and Julien Storini Duration: 1h25min Ages 14 and up

Louise and Julien invite you to witness their breakup by retracing the rehearsals of a show that will never happen. Louise was supposed to write a play inspired by their love story, but instead of the expected romantic hetero fable, we witness a joyful, irreverent chaos featuring Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a Pyrenean bear, Pocahontas, Shakespeare, and a unicorn. BÂTARDS IS A WACKY, POETIC COMEDY NAVIGATING BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY FARCE AND FEMINIST DYSTOPIA.

Support: DRAC Ile-de-France, Théâtre Le Hublot Production: La très neuve compagnie Photo credits: Mélie Néel

"A funny, messy, unpredictable, and disorienting adventure" — L'HUMANITÉ "A half-pop, half-punk show that picks at the wounds of the contemporary hetero couple with self-deprecation and tenderness." — PIANO PANIER "Laughter is a hard discipline, harder than excess. Louise Dupuis is gifted—she masters both." — BLOG JE N'AI QU'UNE VIE "Louise Dupuis knows what she's doing: precision, sensitivity, command of space and time, remarkable direction of actors..." — THÉÂTRE DU BLOG "With a dystopia imagining a world without fathers, Louise Dupuis delivers a very funny, very contemporary, and very poetic play. With her fellow actors, she made us laugh—a lot. She made us think differently. She knew how to flip the table on gender theory." — L'AUTRE SCÈNE.ORG "The illusion game between reality and fiction is pushed radically, even into fairly trashy territory, yielding some truly successful comic moments." — THÉÂTRAL MAGAZINE