Le blues cosmique

Pearl is the name of the lead character in the major show about Janis Joplin: three drag queens play the role in turn. But tonight, all three find themselves on stage together! A scheduling error that will turn the evening into a collision of egos, each convinced of being the original, most legitimate, most iconic, most beloved Pearl... Which of the three will prevail over the other two?

Janis Joplin did not merely sing the blues. She was the blues, that ancient and universal ache of existing too intensely in a world that does not know what to do with you. An experience queer people know well.

"Le Blues Cosmique" is not a biography of Janis Joplin, not a conventional tribute. But a plunge into what Janis represents as a human archetype: those who learned very early that love was not a given, and who built their entire existence around that painful certainty.

Bringing together three drag queen egos around one and the same role — Pearl — poses a simple and dizzying question: who is the most legitimate to claim suffering as her own? The answer, of course, is that they all are in their own way. And that is what they will eventually share.

"Le Blues Cosmique" is addressed to everyone who has ever felt like they wanted too much. Of being hungry in a way that embarrasses others. It is a sensitive journey through loneliness, the quest for love - often in the wrong places - impossible to satisfy, so bottomless and endless is the need to fill the void within oneself.

Thanks to Janis's music, and through performances that are funny and moving, the three artists will confide about what shaped them: lack, rejection, and their visceral need to exist in the eyes of others. Enter the world of Pearl and Janis...