Rebecca Balestra, Manon Krüttli et Guillaume Poix
Jacqueline
théâtre
- 90min
- G Hearing loops
- B Accessible to persons with reduced mobility
Conception: Rébecca Balestra, Manon Krüttli & Guillaume Poix.
Text: Guillaume Poix.
Direction: Manon Krüttli.
Cast: Rébecca Balestra, Jeanne De Mont, Jérôme Denis & Simon Guélat.
Assistant Director: Joël Hefti.
Set Design: Sylvie Kleiber.
Lighting: Jonas Bühler.
Music: Andrès Garcia.
Costumes: Séverine Besson.
Props and Stage Machinery: Alexandre Genoud and Yvan Schlatter.
Make-up & Wigs: Katrine Zingg.
Production: La FUR compagnie.
Administration: Minuit Pile.
Prosthetics: Nagi Gianni.
Choreography: Maurizio Mandorino.
Painting: Valérie Margot.
Drawing: Marius Margot.
Co-production: La Comédie de Genève, Théâtre populaire romand (TPR) – Neuchâtel Centre for the Performing Arts, Arsenic Lausanne.
One rainy evening of 1987, in Paris. The great actress Jacqueline Maillan takes the decision to kill herself. Unable to face the inevitable decline of her career, this queen of the boulevard shares with us her farewell, as a final production. However, a twist of fate throws a hitch in the works: she is offered a major role. But it’s too late, a cocktail of sedatives is already in her bloodstream. Like a headless hen, she fights against the odds to realize a dream she thought had been buried: her stage comeback.
Inspired by the life and work of Jacqueline Maillan, the trio Rébecca Balestra, Manon Krüttli and Guillaume Poix pursue their study of desperate comedy, questioning the ferocity of our existence in a tragic boulevard with a touch of ego-trip.