In Toulouse, a funny and poignant tribute to Michel Berger at Sorano
” Will you be There ? Is one of Michel Berger’s greatest songs. It is
Also the title of a single on stage by Solal Bouloudnine, at Sorano until Friday, January 7.
Solal Bouloudnine is an ex of the Dogs of Navarre, who presented most of their shows at the Sorano theater. It is in this room that the actor returns to present his only one on stage “Will you be there?” “. Solal was 6 years old when Michel Berger died in Ramatuelle. And he is very close to there on vacation Shaking up the chronology, Solal Bouloudnine puts himself in the shoes of an upset tennis player bringing up tragicomic memories, reinventing colorful characters who marked his childhood. With, always, these “allied” songs, signed by Michel Berger.
On August 2, 1992, Solal Bouloudnine becomes aware of death and especially of the fact that everything ends, starting with life. The whole writing of this solo revolves around this anguish that has never left him. An irresistible and dizzying spectacle follows. A Burgundian butcher, a facetious surgeon, a rabbi full of stories, a burn-out mistress, France Gall…
Vibrant and tumultuous
We laugh with Solal at the atrocity of cancer, of venereal and cardiovascular diseases, also gastric and cerebral, of the loneliness which gnaws at him terribly, of the incommunicability between beings, of the carefree and naive childhood that is gone forever.
Will you be There ? is a self-fictional, intimate monologue, written like a childhood dream, with the desire to make people laugh (but not only) and to simply speak to everyone, like a variety singer …
Finally, it is a beautiful tribute, vibrant and tumultuous, to variety “and its power of consolation”.