Solo theatrical performance of a municipal council meeting
Adrien Barazzone performs a solo rendition of a municipal council meeting.
A lectern, five chairs, five microphones: we are plunged into the heart of a town council meeting that is more real than life itself. On the agenda is a thorny issue: should the statue of Woodrow Wilson be removed and replaced with a somewhat conceptual work entitled Boule de papier (Paper Ball)? The debate is open and tempers are running high. The importance of symbols, memory and beauty, but also wokism, cycle paths and small businesses... everything becomes fodder for verbal jousting. Alone on stage, Adrien Barazzone brings to life a gallery of characters, from the tireless chatterbox to the weak-kneed president, not to mention a few excitable councillors. Between outbursts of anger, yawns and fallacious arguments, the actor orchestrates this political cacophony with acuity and tenderness. Whatever the outcome of the vote, the essential lies elsewhere, in this burlesque mirror where our collective contradictions are on display and where we realise that laughter is perhaps the most beautiful of revolutions.
