The Nice-based company Gorgomar has been selected by the Children’s Theatre House to perform its play “La grosse Patate” at the upcoming Avignon Festival. They are counting on you to help them in this beautiful human adventure.
This show, co-produced by the National Theatre of Nice, will be one of the few representatives of the Nice theatrical scene. However, to cover the many expenses related to the Nice troupe’s presence in Avignon, the company has launched a major subscription.
If you too wish to help this young Nice company to shine the colors of Nice on the Avignon stage, do not hesitate to click on the following link: https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/le-journal-de-grosse-patate-avignon-off-2014–2?ref=recent
The Story of Grosse Patate
“Grosse Patate is the nickname they give her at school because she eats all the time. She knows she is round and sweet. In her class, there is Rosemarie the shy one, Rémi her punching bag, scared like a girl, and Hubert whom everyone is in love with. Grosse Patate tells in her diary the sadness, happiness, questions of a little girl trying to understand the world. A text that speaks of friendship, love, grief, difference in a funny and inventive language. Interspersed with ‘dreams,’ The Diary of Grosse Patate by Dominique Richard advances through fragments, scenes of life (class, play, group) where the first friendships, the first loves, and the rejections and betrayals that accompany them take place.”
The Staging
The staging is centered on Grosse Patate’s bedroom. The bedroom consists of a loft bed incorporating three colorful nesting tables; they serve as a toy box with their drawers and chests from which the accessories will be taken out. Separating from the bed, the tables will serve in turn as a kitchen table, a desk, a refuge, stairs. The director chooses three levels of play to adapt the diary to the stage: Grosse Patate’s narrative, the paradoxical dialogue with Rémi, a silent role, and puppet-dolls representing friend Rosemarie and the dandy Hubert. These scenes are metronomically interspersed, as in the text, with interludes representing Grosse Patate’s dreams haunted by the man in black.
The Team:
With: Aurélie Péglion / Emma Laurent
Direction: Thomas Garcia / Aurélie Péglion
Music/Video: Thomas Garcia
Scenography / Lighting Design: Philippe Maurin
Stage Manager: Antoine Hansberger
Puppet Construction: Charlotte Libeau
Costumes: Emilie Bouneau
Origami: Antoine Saglier
Dance Teacher: Johanna Autran
Photos: Fred De Faverney / Jean-Michel Goujon / Rémy Saglier.
Poster: Melissa Waucquier
For more information: www.gorgomar.org
