With the voice of Georges Brassens – Created for Avignon OFF 2024 – With the support of the INA
An imaginary conversation with Georges Brassens, in partnership with INA. The show also features original songs written in Brassens’ style.
With Damien Luce ֍ Directed by: Claude Nime ֍ Set design: Manuele Cid
֍ Music: Damien Luce ֍ With the participation of Adrien Power Luce
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A youth theatre adaptation of an opera by Maurice Ravel, based on a libretto by Colette. Theatre, piano and dance: the three ingredients of this original, wildly exuberant project. The message carried by this work is universal and can be summed up as follows: a little boy learning tenderness, kindness and compassion.
In a creation residency! This show is produced by the association Celui qui souffle, which brings artists into hospitals to provide support and comfort to sick children.
With: Elsa Godard and Damien Luce – Directed by: Damien Luce
Assistant Director: Namiko Gahier-Ogawa – Choreography: Elsa Godard – Costumes: Charlotte Ledger
Lighting Design: Sébastien Babel – Sound Design: Antoine Blanchard
A tender, musical comedy for four hearts.
Damino is a screenwriter. He is what you would call “neurodivergent”. At 40, he still has his childhood imaginary friend, Dadou. Damino has endowed Dadou with every good quality. He has made him an idealized version of himself.
Shyness often also gives rise to an imaginary friend. That’s the case for the play’s second “real” character, Tito, an architect living in the building opposite. Her imaginary friend, Titou, gives her a semblance of a social life—something her shyness prevents her from having. She spends her days painting at an easel, or at her desk, drawing up plans.
The musical presence, through a guitarist, provides a counterpoint to the plot. It is the sonic embodiment of Damino’s imaginary world.
With alternating cast: Roxane Armand, Zoé Corraface, Damien Henno, Alexandre Riedel, Damien Luce and Orestis Kalampalikis.
Directed by François Rollin
Music: Orestis Kalampalikis
Why do the obvious truths sometimes take so long to assert themselves? Sharing the stage is one of them for Damien and Renan Luce. As children, music is the dialogue they choose for themselves, echoing the voices of the great names of French chanson and the melodies of American musicals they begin to learn, haltingly. It is their passion for the stage that brings them together today. And then there is curiosity—the desire to be surprised by the other’s presence in one’s playground; the thrill felt when walking the tightrope of emotions rooted in us since childhood; a reserve that only wants to shatter; the joy of being together again.
We know the composer, but do we know the man? Le Papa de Chouchou is a dive into the composer’s private world. A monologue built from Debussy’s rich correspondence, interspersed with piano music. In the style of the musical salons of old, Claude Debussy welcomes the audience into his home and speaks to them about his music, the war, his illness and his daughter, while playing his compositions on the piano. The show’s convivial, interactive nature allows the audience to enter Debussy’s private world and discover his universe.
Six actors and a musician bring their touch of madness to the characters, while respecting Edmond Rostand’s original text. A burlesque show blending humour, emotion, music and dance.
With: Stéphanie Lassus-Debat, Mélanie Le Duc, Damien Luce, Damien Henno, Guillaume Charbuy, Thierry Victor, Erwan Orain, Stéphane Malassenet, Maxie Perrin, Alexis Collin, Marta Power-Luce, Delphine Latil, Sarah Massuelles.
