Le Printemps des Comédiens has moved to the Domaine d’Ô for 3 weeks of shows in very diverse forms: circus, theater and even cabaret. Behind the performances of an evening, there is also a lot of preparatory work, on stage or elsewhere.
The Printemps des Comédiens has set up a small marquee, it is hidden in the cool of the pine forest. A space to rehearse and even, why not, retouch the shows. And behind the wisdom of the instrumentalists, hides a crazy cabaret.
Le Secret is a cabaret where transformation is an art. They are called Bouche du Rhône, Tony Blanquette or the Baronne du Bronx: 16 performers.
This is the incredible world of Jérôme Marin, alias Monsieur K., who was the ringmaster of Madame Arthur, a legendary transvestite cabaret, before taking a further step into scintillating madness.
At the Secret, everything is permitted, everything is possible: the backstage encroaches on the stage and it becomes intoxicated with songs, screams, poetry with irreverence and delicious decadence.
They are musicians, dancers, strippers, creatures, bearded women, singer(s)… They transform into divas or Cro Magnons in red underwear.
•
©DR
And Jérôme Marin, we find him in an amphitheater in full metamorphosis.
On set, technicians are very focused. For the first time, the stage will accommodate a bar, the public and even dressing rooms. It will be transformed into a music hall.
“What is especially fun to imagine, at least for me, is to arrive in places that are not at all suitable for doing cabaret and to make something that offers a cabaret imagination.” explain Jerome Marin.
And to recreate this atmosphere, it takes 20 technicians and 3 days of assembly.
“The Court of Honor of Avignon was not intended by the popes to present this or that work. But the artists adapt to it, even if it is a very difficult theater. The amphitheater of the Domaine d’Ô, it is true that it was not originally designed to accommodate cabaret, but we are adapting.” he concludes.
It’s no secret, the quiet chairs of the Domaine d’Ô will welcome people, including these three evenings of collective cabaret, on June 6, 7 and 8.
Written with Jean-Michel Escafre.
