What if we stopped lying to ourselves, automatically answering “I’m fine” to the question “How are you?” “. At 47, Camille Chamoux says she understood “what it was like to go bad” and made the fragility of the human condition into a humor show soberly titled It’s okay it’s okay. “As a privileged Western white forty-something, I felt immortal”recognizes the actress and comedian, who arrives on the stage of the Parisian Bouffes theater dressed as a cabaret dancer, golden leotard and large pink feathers on the back. “Suddenly, I saw physical and mental health emerge in my life”she slips, while changing behind a screen. Abandoning the sequins, she wears a beige outfit, strict and classic, more conducive to discussing medical problems of all kinds and the specter of our finitude.
For ten years, Camille Chamoux had accustomed us to intimate and theatrical shows, accurately mixing personal experiences and sociological perspectives. In 2014, in the formidable Born under Giscardshe invited us into her young girl’s bedroom to make fun of the nostalgic failings of her generation. In the excellent Time to live (Molière of humor in 2022), we found her around a large dining room table as a mother advocating optimism and de-dramatization, in an era invaded by an alienating technological frenzy.
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