Odyssud Blagnac: here are the four must-see shows this fall

In this year of celebration of the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of Claude Nougaro, the show “Ici Nougaro” (from November 5 to 9 at 8:30 p.m. at the Aria de Cornebarrieu) is unlike any other and allows for an expected meeting between the actor Grégory Montel and musician Lionel Suarez. Two artists who share a passion for Nougaro. “During Florent, Grégory Montel chose to play Nougaro in improvisation class because he loves his world so much,” confides Henri Dalem, director of Odyssud Spectacles who attended the famous Parisian theater school at the same time as the actor. As for the accordionist Lionel Suarez, he accompanied the Toulouse singer and recorded with him. The play tells in music and poetry the existence of a forty-year-old fascinated by the artist whose double he is and whom he would at all costs like to embody in the cinema. The text and direction are by Charif Ghattas. Stageside for the premiere on November 5 after the performance and meeting with the artists, Thursday November 7 at 6:30 p.m., at the Cornebarrieu media library.

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This atypical show is a four-handed score that combines the music of François Couperin, master of French baroque, performed on the piano by the Israeli virtuoso Iddo Bar-Shaï, and the live shadows of Philippe Beau, magician of light . Plunged into darkness, the audience of “Ombres errantes” (from December 3 to 5 at 8 p.m. at the Mazades theater in Toulouse) embarks on a timeless odyssey. It is a show that appeals to childhood, poetry, magic, mystery. It’s a break, a moment of floating in a fast and overconnected daily life: a spectacle that calms, that enchants, that amazes. It is also a different and unusual way of listening and often discovering musical pages of the French repertoire.

Caliban is a character from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He is a disgusting monster, slave of Prospero, the magician duke driven from power. Above all, it is a puppet from the fertile imagination of the Pupella-Noguès Company. The text of “The Tempest of Caliban” (December 6 at 8 p.m. at the Petit Théâtre Saint-Exupère in Blagnac) is signed Tim Crouch. Prhymed for his youth adaptations of English classics, il offers the oppressed character a funny and angry monologue, harsh and poetic. Sensitive to the magic thrilling in this text, the Cie Pupella-Noguès deploys it in a clever scenography. From the belly of a table placed there like an island, Caliban brings out the objects that tell his story, to the striking rhythm of live sound effects.

It’s unusual to see a rap star on a theater stage. However, in “À huis clos” (from December 17 to 21 at the Sorano theater), Kery James is not his first attempt. Five years after “À Vif”, a play presented at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris, the rapper, author, composer, screenwriter, director and poet Kery James returns with a new show designed as a sequel to his first play which saw Two young lawyer students from “two different Frances” compete in an eloquence competition…