In Vinassan, the Citron Givré collective delighted the public during the New Year’s Eve evening. On stage, actors Gilles Gangloff and Marie-Christine Pinet offered a humorous performance exploring various moments in history, to celebrate the transition to the new year.
This December 31 in the evening, many people were waiting in front of the Léon-Caraveilhe room. To celebrate New Year’s Eve, the actors presented their show entitled The evolution of love over 2,000 yearswith two performances scheduled, one at 8 p.m. and the other at 10 p.m.
At the entrance, Rosa Gangloff takes care of the ticket office. Vinassanaise, like her husband Gilles Gangloff, she is also known for her athletic career as well as her participation in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
“We have been offering New Year’s Eve shows for 18 years, and this is the second year we have done it in Vinassan”she explains. Together, they founded the café-theatre Le Citron Givré in Narbonne in 2008, which closed in 2020 following the pandemic. In the room, Gilles Gangloff and his stage partner Marie-Christine Pinet are busy making the final preparations. Among the audience happy to find the humorous duo, Manou, spectator, rejoices: “Organizing such an evening in Vinassan for New Year’s Eve is a superb initiative.”
Once the audience is seated, the lights go out. Gilles and Marie-Christine enter the stage and the show starts. “The evolution of love over 2000 years”, explores, as its title suggests, the evolution of romantic relationships through the ages. From the origins of life, evoking our condition as simple cells, through Prehistory, Babylon, ancient Greece, the Middle Ages to the treatment of art, there is no shortage of historical references. The sketches follow one another by covering numerous passages in our history, such as notable figures like Robespierre and the famous letter to Camille Desmoulins, or even François Ravaillac. There is even that of Dracula inspired by the famous Romanian voivode of the 15th century Vlad III Basarab, nicknamed “the Impaler”. In the packed room, the sketches are punctuated by numerous burlesque songs. As evidenced by the numerous bursts of laughter and applause over the minutes, the show marked New Year’s Eve for the spectators, who came to close this last evening of the year 2024 with laughter.
The latest news from Le Citron Givré can be found on its website. The Gangloff couple keep in the back of their minds the idea of one day being able to reopen a café-theater in order to be able to share, thanks to the stage, moments of laughter, joy and good humor.
