“South West” information. Comedian Jérémy Ferrari takes over the emblematic Fémina theater in Bordeaux

This reshuffles the cards. Comedian Jérémy Ferrari has signed a nine-year lease to manage the Fémina theater in Bordeaux, and will be within the walls in six months, in July. According to our information, the artist should set up a festival dedicated to humor there, with a significant part dedicated to Africa, with the aim of making Bordeaux a stronghold of the genre. Jérémy Ferrari had already come to the Rocher de Palmer in Cenon in 2018 with “Sans visa”, for a show 100% African comedians. At the time, he even told the Bordeaux Replay channel: “Bordeaux is one of my favorite cities because it is one of the first to have acclaimed me. »

Actor, director – he went behind the camera for his first film in 2024 – Jérémy Ferrari is also an established producer: he is president of Dark Smile Productions, created in 2013. To his credit, the shows of Laura Laune, Arnaud Tsamère or Alexandre Kominek, as well as events, including the first African humor festival in France. Dark Smile’s watchwords: diversity, inclusion, originality, sharing and dynamism.

It is therefore to a craftsman of humor and a sure bet that Jean-Pierre Gil rents his theater: “The trio tour” by Jérémy Ferrari with Baptiste Lecaplain and Arnaud Tsamère is sold out on the two dates in April and May at the Arkéa Arena in Floirac.

One hundred years of history

Not the same gauge as the Fémina theater (1,200 seats), which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2021. With, from 1921, a first vocation which was that of a theater and performance hall. Jean-Pierre Gil, the owner, took over the family business at the end of the 1970s, but spent almost his entire life there. In the 19th century^e century, the Fémina was a post horse shed, became an automobile garage, a public auction house, before being transformed into a theater after the First World War. Until the 1930s, vaudeville and music hall were played there. The Fémina became a cinema and, in 1977, returned to its initial purpose as a performance hall. In 2004, Jean-Pierre Gil opened the place to private and variety producers, renting it year-round to Alhambra Productions. In 2020, Malika Josse takes over the management of the room and succeeds Michel Goudard of Alhambra Productions-Euterpe Promotion.

Currently, the room is rented by the company S-Pass, from the Fimalac group, the leading network of rooms in France (23 rooms including six Zénith, two Arena). S-Pass also applied for the competition for Pin galant in Mérignac (a first in the history of the Mérignac venue). The result will be known in February, during the municipal council vote.

When contacted, Jérémy Ferrari and S-Pass did not respond to our requests.