“Single”, a funny and serious road trip to see at the Théâtre du Cloître de Bellac

Through the stories, songs and dialogues of the two characters (Marilyne Lagrafeuil and Sébastien Chadelaud), Single asks the following question: how can you avoid having your existence stolen by society, by others and sometimes by yourself?

Different themes run through this everyday epic.

Celibacy

An unthought of literature, cinema, theater where romantic love is the pinnacle of the stories. Everything that is not the couple is not planned, is not told, is not exemplified. Single holds up a mirror to singles and others,

questions the couple as a marker of social success. It is a praise of friendship, which is perhaps the only way offered to us to distance ourselves from the normative systems of existence.

Health

Seb is convinced that he regularly suffers from serious illnesses, smokes firecrackers, and takes antidepressants and anxiolytics. Marilyne eats 5 fruits and vegetables a day, plays sports, avoids sugar, gluten and lactose.

Both are figures of our hygienic and anxious society.

Sexuality

The two characters have different sexual orientations. One goes on sex dates while being in love with a friend who doesn’t want him, the other is “fed up with left-wing guys who fuck like right-wing guys”.

Both question the injunction to sexual performance, to sexuality in short.

In Singlewe also talk about dead Facebook friends whose birthday we remind you of, police custody, cod fish, garden hose, hallucinogenic mushroom growing kit, a dog that sings Michel Shepherd…