Toujours Cela Bruit en Moi

Presented by Le Théâtre du Merlan.

Telling one's own story, through sound and solo. With Toujours cela bruit en moi, Lo Guénin, directed by Céleste Germe (Das Plateau), creates a sound fable on the boundary between concert and musical piece, tracing the passage from childhood to adolescence. An eleven-year-old, then a fifteen-year-old, at secondary school, not without difficulties, in friction with himself and with others. Poetry, music: only sounds make his body perceptible. Deeply rooted in the real, this show unfolds a writing built on echoes and shifts, where poetry arises from attention paid to details and perceptions. An invitation to move through memory as emotions surface. Lo Guénin examines identity in the making, the gaze of others, shame, the norms that shape and constrain, but also the power of imagination and of childhood. We are invited to celebrate atypical trajectories, those who are out of step, fragile strengths. The noise of others gives way to a song of one's own.