Diptyque Lagarce

"Being born is not complicated. Dying is very easy. To live, between these two events, is not necessarily impossible. Sketching the vertigo of existence with delicate irony... All Lagarce. This is how the man of the theatre, who died at the age of thirty-eight, introduced Les règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne three decades ago. A unique text, written in the manner of the irreverent 'double' of a nineteenth-century bookshop tobacco, Baroness Staffe's manual. A successful life according to Staffe? No more and no less than a series of details ordered according to propriety... until death itself. From this vademecum of chilling precision, the author draws a breviary that bites life to the bone, keeping only the three key stages of existence: birth, marriage and death.... In which the persistent assignment of women - beyond modernity - to a certain social role is revealed. Served by Catherine Hiegel who takes on the austerity of her role with gusto and humour, this text is an immense pleasure to watch. For this evening, it will be joined by another gem, Music-hall: a light-hearted and profound reflection on the world of show business, written by Lagarce under the influence of the muse Josephine Baker. This time, the imperial Hiegel will be accompanied by her two boys...

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