23ème Festival de Théâtre Amateur - 1er Week-end du 12 au 14 Janvier 2024

23rd Amateur Theatre Festival, with 8 troupes performing over 3 consecutive weekends in the magnificent Italian-style Copiaus Theatre. 1st Weekend from 12 to 14 January 2024

Friday 12 January / 8.30pm - Cie Haut-le-Pied
"Tout est bien qui commence mal" by Jean-Pierre Martinez
Frédérique and Alexandre have been waiting years to adopt a child. Today is the big day. The Children's Aid inspector is about to arrive at their home to assess the couple's solidity, the seriousness of their adoption plan and the conditions under which the child will be taken in. But disaster struck when Alexandre didn't turn up. Frédérique has to find a way of dealing with this delicate situation, which is compounded by an unforeseen plumbing problem. Unless the arrival of the plumber provides part of the solution...

Saturday 13 January / 8.30pm - Cie Les potes à Dionysos
"Un air de famille" by Jean Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui ...
Philippe seems to have made a success of his career. Married to Yolande, he is an executive in a company where he has taken on his younger sister Bett. Together with their mother, they meet as they do every Friday evening in the dreary bistro "Au Père Tranquille" run by Henri, the older brother, to celebrate Yolande's birthday. But things don't go quite as they should... The festivities turn into a settling of scores...

Sunday 14 January / 3.00 pm - Cie Les tréteaux Brionnais
"Mariage à risques" - adaptation of "Risky marriage" by Hacks/O'Hara
A fortunate but organised combination of circumstances brings together a widower and a widow (repeatedly...) who, after a rather cold initial contact, suddenly fall in love with each other. But is this love at first sight sincere, or does each of them have another agenda? Does their hasty union augur a bright or dark future?...

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