FANFARE, tout a une fin sauf la saucisse qui en a deux

Is this a comic show? A priori no, because it is a funeral. Yet the widow puts on a show and the brass band of the funeral directors would gladly play a festive tune. Decidedly, death does not stop the living; it is even death that leads the incident-filled dance that is existence. Life is moved by death... Did you say "moved"?

For her faux solo on stage, Anne-Lise Heimburger surrounds herself with five top-flight wind instrumentalists. Together, they blend the great musical and literary repertoire with popular folklore, just as night mingles with day and combat with love. In passing, they discover that by accelerating a funeral march four times, it becomes a polka, and make the oxymoron of life and death vibrate.

The musical theatre creation Fanfare, Tout a une fin sauf la saucisse qui en a deux seeks to look at adversity which, if one does not bend to it, sparks a unique vitality. Accomplices for many years, Anne-Lise Heimburger invites Samuel Achache and Florent Hubert to join her in bringing out the rare and laughter from the worst.