Ariane Ascaride

When Ariane Ascaride packs her bags and decides to tell her life story, things get moving in a text as precise as a plumb line, co-written with Marie Desplechin and choreographed by Thierry Thieû Niang. So many memories and family stories crammed into these six suitcases!

Thus weighed down, Ariane Ascaride arrives on stage with everything she has, lock, stock and barrel, so as not to forget a single detail of her rather peculiar story.

And there is plenty to tell when you grow up between a communist father, a philanderer and opera fanatic who makes the Red Army Choir roar, and a almost mute mother. Naturally, the little girl is somewhat "touched by the fairies", as they say in Marseille, a bit of a madcap.

Ariane laughs about it, and unravels the thread of her existence as an endearing, burlesque comedy, offering us the role of her life like a gift from the fairies. Text: Marie Desplechin. With: Ariane Ascaride. Direction & choreography: Thierry Thieû Niang. Running time: 1h15