Shows

FAIR PLAY

Musicals Moderns Humour Modern ballet

Book

A healthy mind in a healthy body …
« Sport is universal, bears emotions and brings peoples together. Like music or pantomime. I have chosen to
combine all three. Accompanied by Philippe Leygnac once again, this show for all ages examines sport and
its mentality in a humorous, off-beat manner. Pantomime requires rigour in the movement and awareness of
the body, the tools of my trade, and sensations are the same on a playing field and on a stage: an adrenaline
burst before the start of the game and then anything can happen before the final whistle. Put the body, mo-
vements, feelings and frustrations of a sportsman to music. Have a tender, poetic and critical approach to the
dreams of glory, steel-mindedness, physical capacity and strength of sportsmen and also to their weaknesses
and sometimes their ridiculousness. Why feel a need to do better, to push back the limits and to be the best?
Why defend a challenge, a match, a time or a record as if one’s life depended on it? Perhaps, as in these child-
ren’s games, it is to be the strongest in the world, if only for a day.
And then?
Georges Orwell wrote that ‘Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play’, considering it to be ‘…bound up
with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules …’. Curiously, these features are found in the world
of the burlesque. As the title suggests, following the quotation from Orwell, Fair Play focuses on the sporting
spirit and fair play. It shows a host of examples of bad behaviour and pretentions and mocks ruined careers
and failures. This might bring to mind Jacques Tati’s Impressions sportives or Charlie Chaplin’s The Champion.
Fair Play is two figures on a stage, facing the audience—like two athletes facing the grandstand —but where
the only prize is not a medal but the laughter of everyone, big and small. »

Patric Thibaud

Cast : Patrice THIBAUD, Philippe LEYGNAC

Stage direction : Jean-Marc BIHOUR, Jean-Michel GUERIN, Patrice THIBAUD

Music : Philippe LEYGNAC

Costumes : Isabelle BEAUDOUIN

Lighting designer : Charlotte DUBAIL

Creation : Patrice THIBAUD

Durée

1h20

Premiere and last

From 05/06/24 To 21/07/24

Infos & Booking

Box office : 31, rue de la Gaîté 75014 Paris
Box office phone : 01.43.22.77.74 / 01.43.22.83.04
Box office fax : 01.43.20.08.83

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