The Blue Men, a variation full of humanity on the themes of nomadism, uprooting and crossing.
It is one of the cultural highlights of this month of November. In co-hosting with the ASSA-ATP, the Théâtre de la Maison du Peuple will host, Saturday November 16 at 8:30 p.m., the Cie Faux Magnifico with the play “Les Hommes bleus” directed by Toni Cafiero.
A poignant work that revisits Crin Blanc, the masterpiece by Albert Lamorisse – Palme d’Or for short film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 – which tells the story of a friendship between an untamed wild horse and a young boy, in the Camargue region.
For “The Blue Men”, we move away from the original work but we question the myth, with this question, if Crin Blanc returned today from his forced exile, crossing the Mediterranean Sea to redeem the conduct of men, that would he have to tell us?
A lucid look at migrations
The Mediterranean precisely is at the heart of this piece accompanied on stage by Jadore de Chance, a Camargue horse, in turn ferryman, savior, personification of God… On stage, Stéphanie Marc, Grégory Nardella, Jean Yann Verton accompany Jean-Marc Barr , the actor revealed in Le Grand Bleu, a film of a generation co-written and directed by Luc Besson. Rare in the theater, an Art teacher in the Anthracite series released this year on Netflix, we find him here in this committed work which offers a lucid and sensitive look at migrations.
The Blue Men come to draw a variation on nomadism and uprooting: when humans have to leave and abandon everything. We follow the intersecting destinies of a woman who has chosen freedom, a man who has four lives or another who would like to be able to start all over again.
In L’Art Vue, Jean-Marc Barr, César for best actor in 1989 for The Big Blue explain : “It’s a very beautiful, very rich piece, which seems to come from another universe. It’s almost a metaphysical fable on the idea of crossing, on what it is to be a refugee , but through a certain humor, the play brings a look full of humanity on the heartbreaking phenomenon that is migration.
