While public theaters are taking a break, private theaters are opening their doors wide. Here is an overview of the programming for these end-of-year celebrations with five shows to see from Monday December 23 to Sunday December 29.
The improvisation festival
the Demons of MIDI
The Cie les Démons de MIDI takes over the Pierre Tabard theater to deliver a weekend dedicated to the improvisation festival. And there is something for all ages. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 6 p.m., they offer three improvisation shows in one. With Historias minimas, they glean bits of stories from the audience to shape scenes. For the Broadway Demons, they manage to create an improvised musical comedy. And for a reverse case, they are launching a participatory investigation at the “Private Investigator Institute”. At 8:30 p.m., they do it again with Les Schnock stories. It is up to the audience to give the scenario and to the actors to interpret it. Price of shows: €10 or €13.
Younger children will be able to enjoy What if… a journey through Icelandic, German or Japanese legends at 10:30 a.m. For children aged 3 to 6 years. At 5 p.m., the show, always designed with improvisation, is dedicated to children aged 6 to 12.
Montpellier I love you
“In Montpellier, every time you missed a junction, you won a free tour of the city.” And it’s obviously not a little train ride. In which room can we hear this line? In Montpellier I love youwhich is being replayed at the Kawa Theater during these holidays. On one side, there is Laurence. A pure Montpellier who wears the MHSC outfit and a portrait of Loulou Nicollin in Iroquois in her living room. His neighbor is Gabriel, a Lyonnais (i.e., from the North) who has just moved to the city after living in Berlin. He likes cycling. She hates cyclists. He cooks quinoa. She stuffs herself with shit. He listens to jazz (ah, that trumpet!). She loves Ricoune. The lines are magnified. Although there are plenty of nods to the city, we are warned that you don't necessarily have to be “from the south to see this show.”
The very young audience at the Theater de la plume
The little Théâtre de la Plume is focusing everything on Christmas and very young audiences for these holidays (from three years old). In the morning, at 11 a.m., from December 26 to 29, Flavia Perez will delight the children with a mini Christmas concert. Guitar slung over her shoulder, she takes on the Christmas tradition but revisits it. It's up to the children to draw songs that she sings, makes noises or mimes. A participatory show where the children end up on stage to dance. At 4 p.m., time for a musical trio for a show around the belief in Santa Claus. It features Olie, an 8-year-old girl who, to test Santa Claus, decides to write to him. A letter-writing relationship will follow until New Year's Eve when the little girl will receive an “extraordinary gift”.
Stiletto heels and hair on the legs
The comedy was rehearsed for several years at the Avignon Off festival. It is on the duo Stiletto Heels and Hairy Paws that Point Comédie has decided to focus on for these end-of-year celebrations, to the point of also making it its New Year's Eve show on December 31. It's about the aftermath of a really, really complicated party that two friends, Rose and Anna (Nathalie Foucault and Lise Herbin, who wrote the play) endure. They emerge at 3 p.m. with no memory of the evening they spent. The only thing they are certain of is that they partied, and probably a little too much, or even a lot too much. Beyond the hangover, there is still a problem for one of them that will have to be explained like everything else. The two friends will have to look for clues throughout the apartment. There is complicity in adversity and panic. It's a kind of very bad trip for women. What we should perhaps avoid for these holidays.
Vivaldi, Schubert, Caccini and Christmas carols
So obviously, in terms of classical music, we are lucky to have the Orchester National de Montpellier Occitanie. But other orchestras also come to see us. This is the case of the Paris Classik orchestra on Sunday December 29. He is much more modest. We must agree. Behind this ensemble, two names stand out: Stéphane Henock, violinist of the Orchester National de France and Claire Cervera, mezzo-soprano specializing in chamber music.
On the menu for this end-of-year party-oriented concert: Vivaldi, Schubert and Caccini. For the first, the choice fell on the timeless The Four Seasons. For the next two, it's about enjoying versions of Ave Maria. The program will end with sacred and popular Christmas carols.
