Funny and moving, the play “Le Facteur” soon on tour in Aude

Wednesday 06th November 2024 07:57 AM

the essential
Produced and performed by the Dryadalis Company, this “post-traumatic” comedy, both burlesque and serious, was crowned with success in Paris. The dates of the Aude tour.

Created in 2021, this play staged in 2022 by the young Périgord theater company Dryadalis was rewarded with a nomination for the Cyranos 2023 in the Best Show for All Audiences category. Its author and director, Etienne Fraday, is currently performing as an actor in the show “Mon Premier Cabaret”, directed by the famous choreographer Kamel Ouali at Paradis Latin, in Paris.

A story full of tensions, revelations and twists and turns.
DR – Margot Strahodinsky

A priest, a police inspector, a corpse

Set in the immediate post-war period, in 1946, “The Postman” features five characters, including a priest and a police inspector, who find themselves trapped by the storm in a small country house, with a corpse to hide. (the postman). This context, both comical and dramatic, prankish and melancholy, will bring up old war memories.

Taken by the Christian faith, the priest finds himself complicit in a murder.
DR – Margot Strahodinsky

“Through this play, the question is not simply to make people laugh with a burlesque story, like any other comedy, but indeed to reconcile comedy and melancholy as well as the torments of each character,” indicates Etienne Fraday. During this story, everyone discovers themselves and shows their weaknesses but also their dark sides. The principle is not to define who the good guys and the bad guys are, but to listen to them testify to their past actions while trying to understand themselves. to their place. Our ambition is that the viewer becomes attached to each character by discovering the secret that upsets them.

Twelve performances are announced in the department.
DR – Margot Strahodinsky

Twelve performances are announced in the department, from November 30 to December 15, 2024: Saturday November 30 to MoussoulensEmilien Combes room, at 8:30 p.m.; Sunday December 1st at Caunes-Minervoisat the municipal hall, at 3 p.m.; Tuesday December 3 at Saint-Hilairein the village hall, at 8 p.m.; Wednesday December 4 at Carcassonneat the Auditorium, at 8 p.m.; Thursday, December 5 at Fanjeauxin the multipurpose room, at 8 p.m.; Saturday December 7 at Laure-Minervoisat Domaine de Russol, at 8 p.m.; Sunday December 8 at Fontiers-Cabardèsat the communal home, at 3 p.m.; Tuesday December 10 at Vinassanat the socio-cultural complex, at 8 p.m.; Thursday, December 12, at Cazilhacin the multipurpose room, at 8 p.m.; Friday December 13 at Parazain the multipurpose room, at 8 p.m.; Saturday December 14 at In the eveningat the Théâtre Cinéma Royal, at 8 p.m.; Sunday December 15 at Val-de-Dagneat the Montlaur home, at 5 p.m.