By Frédéric Bourgeois
Published on
1 May 24 at 9:48
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Hairdresser at home in Bayeux (Calvados), Gwladys Loison-Couppey is a woman with boundless enthusiasm. Forced unemployed during confinement, in 2020, she decided to help her neighbor by becoming a volunteer at the Bayeux branch of the Bessin Red Cross in Virois. And still dedicates himself to it.
I had always told myself that when I retired, I would be part of an association. I was needed earlier.
Dynamic, the forty-year-old also found a real Source of happiness on the boards of the Links Theater. Radiating the Toulouse-Lautrec room with his good humor and energy, it inspired an original initiative and useful: a improvisation cabaret snack for the benefit of the Bayeux Red Cross. It will take place this Sunday, May 5, 2024, at 4:30 p.m.
Eight naked actors!
On the occasion of this improvisation cabaret, eight amateur actors will go on stage and to put yourself in danger. “It’s the audience who will give themes to the actors who will have to improvise,” announces Gwladys.
It will then be up to these actors to draw on their imagination and the weekly work carried out with the association. “Like working on emotions,” illustrates Gwladys.
2 hours of show
During the show, which will last 2 hoursshares of cakes will be offered against a financial contribution. “A hat will also rotate around the room to collect donations. Entry is free. » The proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross. Every euro will count, as the Red Cross must fight against precariousness.
Small gestures for big causes
Small gestures go a long way. Gwladys Loison-Couppey understood this well. On April 22, 2020, in full confinement during the COVID-19 health crisis, the 8 p.m. on TF1 dedicates a subject to her while she used her technical unemployment to help others. In particular through volunteering at the Red Cross. The cameras of our colleagues at TF1 put it in the light again on July 14, 2020, at 8 p.m. Julien Arnaud. As part of a column entitled “My life after”.
In this new TF1 subject, Gwladys takes his bike (an old La Poste bike “too practical for shopping, with the large panniers”) and propels himself through the medieval city, to meet the beneficiaries of the Red Cross. With ever more enthusiasm even though she knew she would be overwhelmed after confinement. “I complain when my clients touch their bangs, but some of them had fun on their children’s or husband’s hair! »
However, there is no question of her putting aside her convictions. When it comes to solidarity, she doesn’t split hairs.
I adapt to many situations, and I am ready to help people in poverty, because I have been in difficulty myself. I don’t expect anything in return.
In the marauders team
The hairdresser had announced her desire to continue her commitment to the French Red Cross. And she always performs marauding in Bayeux almost four years later.
“I didn’t wait to appear on television to have this desire to help others. » Empathy is the strength of this woman who also had this need to let her emotions out. And that was the theater that allowed him to do that. “You shouldn’t hesitate: if you want to start doing theater, you have to go for it. There are shy people, but not behind the mask of the character. Thanks to theater, we can go as far as the absurd without being ridiculous. It’s a way of working on yourself and on how to reach out to others. »
Improvisation cabaret snack for the benefit of the Red Cross, Sunday May 5, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Toulouse-Lautrec room, rue des Teinturiers. Price: free. Contact: 06 80 53 92 70, [email protected]
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