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France CULTURE – ON DEMAND – CONCERT-FICTION

Let us rejoice, because, after having read the same stories a thousand and one times and exhausted the “To watch with family” catalog of the platforms, France Culture is going to save our first weekend at the start of the year by rebroadcasting several concerts -fictions.

This form, invented in 2014 by Blandine Masson, director of fiction at France Culture, gives voice to a great work of popular literature in words and music (with the Orchester national de France or the Philharmonic). And it's magical.

So Moby Dickby Herman Melville, adapted by Stéphane Michaka and directed by Cédric Aussir, which gives you chills. Cédric Aussir and Stéphane Michaka had already given us chills by proposing Draculawhich marked, in 2014, the birth of this unique shape in the world. If Dracula is not available for replay, let's fall back into the rabbit hole of their Alice and Wondersfreely adapted from the text by Lewis Carroll.

But we can also embark for The mysterious islandby Jules Verne, directed by Sophie-Aude Picon, or flying to Neverland with Peter Pan or the boy who never grew upde James Matthew Barrie, adapted by Andrew Birkin and directed by Christophe Hocké.

Tasty adaptation

But let's focus on the tasty adaptation by Pierre Senges of Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, and so well broadcast by Laure Egoroff. To do this, settle in and prepare to be transported to Lilliput Island. Even if, before that, you will have had to survive a storm, tuck in the windshields and bring back the parrots; secure the cockatois, uncapping the main yard and furling the jib. You are like us poor Earthlings and Gulliver, you don't understand anything? ” Never mind, the captain will answer. Anyway, there's nothing you and the cook can do right now. We'll see after the storm: you'll have your work cut out for you. The gravedigger too. »

Now, catch your breath, but hold on a little longer: the landing will not be easy, because dear Gulliver will have to thwart the betrayals and assassination attempts planned against him. And it is all this, and more, that Laure Egoroff offers us in this concert-fiction, thanks to the talent, also, of the noise engineer Bertrand Amiel and that of the actors, whether it is Antoine Sarrazin (giant Gulliver), Anne-Lise Heimburger (sublime queen and not insensitive to the charms of the aforementioned) or even Benjamin Wangermée and Pauline Belle (priceless Navel and Nostril). It's lively, intelligent, funny, and listenable to everyone. In short, it’s – again – Christmas on Radio France.