October 21 and 22, Espace Rose de Mai at 9 PM.
“A musical show, 100% nineteenth century, entirely written with a quill pen, which itself was raised in the open air and grain-fed.”
After their very first show “In Voice and Steam,” which narrated the vicissitudes of gay life while joyfully reversing clichéd stereotypes, the 3 Versatiles, unable to reproduce among themselves, have made the bold decision to increase their number by 25 percent. Today, the 3 Versatiles are now 4, just like some of the musketeers in the court of King Louis XIII were in their time.
As a result, when it came time to choose a work to revisit for their next show, it would have been quite logical for them to then opt for the novel by Alexandre Dumas père mentioned above.
No way! For our Versatiles do not merely have an easygoing mentality and simplistic associations of ideas. Instead of the bewigged quartet of swordsmen so well wearing capes, our four men have preferred the four volumes of the masterpiece of 19th-century realist literature: Les Misérables.
So what! Another version in the vast sea of stage and musical adaptations of the most-read French novel.
No way again! For this new adaptation evokes the malaise of characters, not in search of their author, but tormented by inevitably tragic destinies they did not choose and which are beginning to seriously bother them.
One would like to find love, another dreams of the year 2000, others can no longer bear being secondary characters, in short, a joyful theatrical-varietal cacophony (don’t look for this term, it doesn’t exist yet) somewhere between Hugo and Hugues Auffray, where about thirty characters intersect, ready to do anything to leave the pages in which they’ve been written without even a back cover.
The four singer-actors interpret the madness of all these characters to musical standards known by all (Aznavour, Nougaro, Bizet, Michael Jackson, Village People, etc.).
Author: Christian Dupouy
Directors: Luc Carpentier and Christian Dupouy
With: Luc Carpentier, Jean-Marc Daniel, Jean-François Dewulf, Christian Dupouy, and Wilfried Richard
