Even if she says she does not want to follow in the footsteps of Anthony Kavanagh and Stéphane Rousseau, who had great successes in France, Virginie Fortin begins to attract the attention of a growing number of humor lovers in French -speaking Europe.
The Quebec humorist just returns from a series of autumn dates in France, Belgium and Switzerland, the latest from his solo show My feelingswhich she had launched here in 2022.
It was her second stay in Europe in 2024 and her fifth since 2018. From one time to the next, she notes that interest in her is “exponential”.
“In the spring, I was fortunate to be invited to Daily [populaire émission animée par Yann Barthès sur TMC] And it made a lot of talk about the tour. This is the reason why I returned a second time in the same year, especially to play the European [une salle de 350 places à Paris]», She said, in an interview with The newspaper.
At the start, says Virginie Fortin, it is also for the pleasure of meeting a new audience, much more than to become a big show, that she had tested the French market. “I went there out of curiosity, but every time I go there and it’s going well, I can’t wait to go back. I am taking this more and more seriously. ”
Keep the accent
Virginie Fortin has an ace in her sleeve. As her texts have few references to Quebec culture, she does not have a great work of adaptation to do.
“There are a few turns of sentences I pay attention to,” says the one who does not want to speak French either.
“I don’t want to take an accent that does not belong to me, to feel that I disguise myself completely and that I am no longer Virginia. I go on the way to be understood, nothing more. ”
More nonsense for the 3e spectacle
When she returns there, it will be with new. After Christmas, Virginie Fortin will embark on the writing of a third solo show. She wishes to present it in Quebec and Europe in 2026.
After exploring the themes of space and time in his first two creations, the humorist believes that she will continue his existential questions, but by camouflaging them more.
“I want my third show to be a little more nonsense, while still having the little voice of Virginia which has something to say. I often say that I do philosophical humor, but when I was improvising, I was the stupid service. I was the one who shouted: “There is someone who farted”, “explains Virginie Fortin.
“I want to make these two people coexist more skillfully on stage. I’m happy when people get out of my show and say they’ve thought about it, but there, I want them to say: “Lord, I should have brought other bobettes”, “she concludes.
