At the Théâtre des Béliers in Paris, Robin Goupil’s comedy presents a murder story to be solved in a police station.
It’s not every day that we discover a new author. This time, here is Robin Goupil – nothing to do with Romain, the director – who is currently distinguishing himself with The Loop (the loop), a comedy where the absurd competes with madness. Created at the Avignon Festival, the play is being performed at the Théâtre des Béliers in Paris. The story, written with a schoolboy sense of humor, features four characters who seem to have come out of a parody of a 1980s detective film.
In a police station in Denver, Colorado, Lieutenant Carrie (the memorable Juliette Damy) and her superior, the incorruptible Douglas (Stanislas Perrin) deal with ” a dirty business “. They question Michaël or Mike (Tristan Cottin). The young man, who is also the son of the mayor of the city, is suspected of having murdered a certain Angelina. He is the last to have seen her (” She is pretty, Angelina »…).
Truculent dialogues
“I’m waiting for my lawyer “, he warns. The latter, with disheveled blonde curls (a cocky Aurélie Boquien) arrives chewing gum, in her candy pink pantsuit. A fan of wordplay taken from pop songs, series and feature films, Robin Goupil has fun and amuses, creating colorful dialogues exchanged by deadpan characters. “When you put your feet in the clafoutis, you have to expect to walk on pits!“, the lawyer believes.
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The thirty-year-old director orchestrates the entrances and exits of this small, fast-paced world. Almost permanently on the stage – on one side, the interrogation room, on the other the police station – the actors make no mistakes. As the title indicates, the sketches run in a loop each time, embellished with a new ingredient, surprising, often funny. The pace of the show reaches a peak of madness thanks to an overexcited Juliette Damy. Glasses on her nose, ponytail and shorts, the actress shows her talent in a bravura piece that we will not reveal. The audience only has eyes for her. The actress is not unknown. Like Robin Goupil, she joined the Comédie-Française academy.
Robin Goupil has just found success with his first play,No limitat the Théâtre du Splendid. A dive into the middle of the Cold War when a group of American bombers mistakenly receives the order to bomb Moscow. ForThe Loop the playwright applied the same recipe: an offbeat subject, a tight text, references that speak to the greatest number of people and a direction of actors that allows no downtime. The circle is complete!
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