From Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 March 2023, Théâtre des Muses
The double bass
Following the triumph of "The Flight of the Penguin", let's find the extraordinary Jean-Jacques Vanier! - Creation Avignon 2022
Shortly before the worldwide success of his novel “Le Parfum”, Patrick Süskind wrote this play with universal influence. An anonymous musician, double bass player in an orchestra, awaits the performance, alone with his instrument, his dreams, his bad faith, his artistic and romantic frustrations, amplified by the practice of music.
A masterpiece of grating humour, "La Contrebasse" is the striking portrait of a human being in his greatness and his littleness, struggling with the social machinery here represented by the hierarchy of the orchestra, linked to his instrument. by an intimate relationship made up of love and hate. It is this unique relationship which, through music, manages to connect him to the world.
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“Orchestrated, with the precision of great conductors, by Gil Galliot, the actor appropriated this text, making it vibrate, resonate in a great symphony of feelings that enchanted us. » loeildolivier.fr
“Jean-Jacques Vanier embodies this shy, musician and frustrated lover whose life revolves around his double bass, an inevitable company loved and hated. A gripping, moving show, leaving room for laughter and making people think about the condition of orchestral musicians. It is a remarkable sight to behold. » sudart-culture
