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Oct 16, 2024 |
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© Marc Ginot
ƒƒƒ article from Nicolas Brizault-Eyssette
Donkey Skinyes, of course, it speaks to us immediately, with the tales of Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers, then as we are no longer young, the film by Jacques Demy, with Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Seyrig and Jacques Perrin, Jean Marais… Yes. “ But the situation deserves attention! “. The young and pretty princess who, on the strong advice of her godmother, a very precious fairy, escapes from the strange love of her father, a young widower, and goes to meet the most wonderful of wonderful princes. The story does not change, one wonders why it would try to do so, it just seeks to overflow with as much poetry, beauty and humor here and there, and to simply make itself clearer. , that the mystery remains to understand how a donkey can become a man who was a woman. That we can understand (us without worry, of course, but the kids too) what scares the princess so much, what she is suffering from, who the bad guy is.
It all starts strangely, we expect flowers everywhere and the stage is almost empty, a large table, three or four chairs around it and at the very back, huge vertical stripes, white on a black background, which will discreetly dance, open up. , become a splendid screen on which the princess will appear from time to time, lost and trying to hide, listening to the apparently eccentric advice of her godmother, and other characters. It’s beautiful. How else to say it. Demy appears for real at one point and we say to ourselves yes, it’s normal, it’s a 2024 version. Except that the title is Donkey Skin – The party is over. Thousands of years have passed. The donkey is transgender, half handsome guy and real girl with feathers everywhere and incredible pumps of a crazy dancer, the fairy from Sleeping Beauty is superb, lesbian and in love with the donkey who can’t resist either. That said, is the grandmother necessary in this story? She talks about raspberries and they are strawberries. Start of Alzheimer’s? We don’t know where the truth is, the falsehood is, and vice versa. The King-Dad is all clean on him, prettily dressed in white, from head to toe. He is sad and wants to give big hugs. We move from gaming to crime. The gentle, fun madness of the beginning fades. The truth arrives. Yes, a dad can have the idea of “annoying” his pretty little daughter, worse he can do it. And Donkey Skin – The party is over. The title is more than clear. The madness fades to show the pain, the feeling of loss, of guilt. And how we can fight, with the godmothers, the fairies, the donkeys and everything that follows to save the little lost princess. There are marvels here and there, if only in the costumes, the play between true and false, theater and cinema, ultra-rapid change of these costumes which surprises us while the character we have just seen was an image, a film so to speak, and the actress therefore had all the time necessary to change properly.
Everything is more and more obvious, we can complain “when we grow up” that the crazy and beautiful story becomes slow. The “real” takes up more and more space. But it’s not bad to talk about these nasty stories with this clear lightness to children. The walls no longer move, the cake is cooked. The princess can no longer talk to her magic teddy, the story drags on, is it necessary at this point? Perhaps too many subjects want to be discussed and this sometimes results in a feeling of dilution? More punches, why not?
In this magical spectacle, the king doesn’t get torn apart enough by all the fairies and animals hanging around. Damage. Should we have taken advantage of it? But we must especially talk about the enormous impression that this show offers with these splendid costumes, the make-up, the splendid effects of the sets, the play of the princess’s red and white suitcase, which we would almost want to go poking on stage, the chairs, tables, etc., which circulate on stage, we look for a wire, a strand of steel (so to speak). Nothing, if it turns out fairies exist. Their names are Hélène Soulié and Marie Dilasser. For them, “this text was born from a joint desire to rewrite the tale Donkey Skin at the dawn of the #meetooincest movement, and our intimate and family stories. To shed a contemporary light on it, to inscribe in this tale the imprint of our time, (…)”. It’s more than successful and actually ten year olds can go see it. They will have fun, learn, think and why not, be reassured and talk?
© Marc Ginot
Donkey skin – the party is overHélène Soulié, TPM Théâtre Public Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Vernant room, Montreuil
From 10 years old
Creation 2023
Conception and direction: Hélène Soulié
Text: Marie Dilasser in collaboration with Hélène Soulié
Assistant director: Chloé Bégou
Avec: Lorry Hardel, Claire Engel, Lenka Luptakova, Nathan Jousni, Fanny Kervarec, Julien Testard
Scenography: Emmanuelle Debeusscher, Hélène Soulié
Video creation: Maïa Fastinger
Lighting creation: Juliette Besançon
Musical composition: Jean-Christophe Sirven
Costume design: Marie-Frédérique Fillion
Wig and makeup: Marie-Frédérique Fillion, Jean Ritz
Lighting management – video: Fanny Lacour, Emilie Fau
Sound – video: Guillaume Blanc
Stage management: Emmanuelle Debeusscher, Marion Koechlin
General management: Marion Koechlin
From October 14 to 22, 2024
Monday 14 at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Tuesday 15 and Friday 18 at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Thursday the 17th at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday 19 at 6 p.m.
Sunday 20 at 5 p.m.
Monday 21 at 3 p.m.
Tuesday 22 at 3 p.m.
Duration 1 hour 20 minutes
TPM Public Theater Montreuil
Jean-Pierre Vernant Room
10 place Jean Jaurès
93100 Montreuil
Around the show
Story Monday:
Wednesday October 16 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Writing workshop for 9–13 year olds.
Relaxed representation:
Saturday October 19
Thanks to an inclusive reception system, it is easier for people with disabilities to come to TPM.
Toddler Tuesday:
Tuesday October 22
At the end of the performance, come and share a snack on stage or in the hall with your children.
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