Divorce for all

The theater is back in service for a few rooms that are taking it up. It was time ! The kick-off was given on Thursday July 09 with the play “Quelle famille” at the Grande Comédie, in front of a masked hall on arrival and some places left vacant between spectators, health rules oblige. We were there.

Paris, 1970s. But what fly did this family bite? From great-grandfather to grandparents, parents to children, each member has a good reason to want a divorce. The trapped bourgeois Marie-Christine says “Marie-Kiki” (Armelle) can’t believe it. This Kafkaesque situation goes beyond it. And there is something. Her mother Denise teaches her, suitcase in hand, that she is leaving her father Raymond for the 22nd time, when super grandpa, her octogenarian grandfather (Jean-Pierre Castaldi) disembarks from Nièvre when it has been 20 years since he had not come to Paris to tell him of his intention to separate after 60 years from his wife and that his own daughter Annie, freshly married to Franck, a future doctor and 6 weeks pregnant, announced that she too wants to divorce.

“This time is a serious one.” Even Marie-Kiki will not escape it by discovering that her husband Edouard-Henry cheated on her at the beginning of their marriage. The will to divorce on the chain creates an awful mess. “Isn’t the main reason for divorce not marriage? But, settling of scores, different marriages and slamming doors will not be right for this family of four generations in which, ultimately, love will emerge victorious.

“Quelle famille”, a comedy in the pure boulevard tradition, by Francis Joffo presented for the first time in Paris after the forced stop due to the context of the Covid, of a tour in France, directed by Xavier Viton – A joyful disorder of conjugal scenes rhythmic and colorful at will, in which laughter and emotions are guaranteed, cheerfully interpreted by Armelle, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Claire Conty, Julie Lagnier, Didier Claveau, Simon Jeannin and Xavier Viton – At Théâtre la Grande Comédie, (Paris IX) from Thursday to Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 6:00 p.m. – Reservations: 01 48 74 03 65 – www.happycomedie.com

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