Antoine Lucciardi, comedian in Rouen to tell the “story of a misfit”
By Julien Bottler
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Rouen, it is not just an exceptional heritage. It is also of many artistic talents ! We decided to take advantage of the summer of 2022 to introduce you to these not very well-known artists or craftsmen. Today meeting with Antoine Lucciardi, atypical comedian who has great plans in Rouen.
An “unfunny” comedian
Irony is never very far in Antoine Lucciardi’s career. This 40-year-old Corso-Breton who lived mainly in the Paris suburbs arrived in Rouen four years ago, in particular for the well-being of his asthmatic son. “Right after, on a had Lubrizol. Bad luck…”, he smiles.
Paradoxical also to know that as a kid, he was “at the top of the class, very shy, I studied at the conservatory”.
Frankly, I was not funny. I don’t think I’m still…
But the discovery of improvisation allowed him to come out of his shell. “Basically, I wanted to play classical theater, Musset, and in the end, I discovered improvisation and I interrupted. I turned pro in 2003.
Little by little, the desire to make a grandiose comedy show, “by dint of rubbing shoulders with comedians”. The desire to write was there, but according to him, the talent a little less. “At 18 years old, I was a real asshole. At 23, I had worked for the Karl Zero show, I had taken a boulard not possible, ”he admits. “I thought I knew everything but in the end, I did like the others, like my friend Gaspard Proust for example. “Result, his first show is a flop.
The elegance of the bastardthe “tale of a misfit”
Antoine does not allow himself to be dismantled, however. “I learned my job by breaking my neck,” he relativizes. “At 40, I have more tannins. I know what I want to talk about. »
In his third show The elegance of the bastard, “my first really successful show”, Antoine Lucciardi unfolds “the story of a misfit in a world not made for dreamers. I always have the impression of being the ass between two chairs”.
This show is a cry of love for people who are like me and the reunion with the child who remains in me.
A child who we hope is not too sensitive. Because in addition to the absurd and the love of puns that he particularly likes, there is also a sometimes black humor: multiple absurd suicide attempts (with a banana for example!), a totally tyrannical fantasized Mozart’s mother or a pedophile character. “I love playing weird pedophiles, I don’t know why,” he says.
“We can still laugh at everything if it’s well written”
Something to offend sensitive souls? ” I do not think so. It’s true that now, in humor, we pay more attention to what we say, we pay more attention to certain sensitivities”, recognizes the artist. “But it’s good, because it requires being more refined in writing, more demanding and less lazy. I think you can still laugh at anything if it’s well written. »
He will be able to experience it extensively during his three months at the Palais des Glaces from September 27, followed by a tour of 75 dates. But also during a visit with his improv troupe in August in the Jamel Comedy Club. Or in the writing, with his company, of a series “genre The Sopranos, but in a family of executioners of the French Revolution”. And a return to the Théâtre à l’Ouest in September 2022.
A planned theater in Rouen
And in the midst of all this, the now Rouennais also aims to open a theater, the Souffleur de Rêves, in his adopted city, next to his house in the Saint-Julien district. “We want to offer humour, contemporary and classical theatre, with a large part of local troupes, shows for young audiences, improvisation, storytelling, slam, artist residencies…”, Antoine list.
He also wants to make it a place of transmission. “When I was a kid in the Parisian suburbs, I was helped a lot by educators. I want the kids from Grammont to have a blast in front of the classics in my theatre. And conversely, that the old riches of the right bank discover slam or things they don’t know. »
I want to do for others what has been done for me.
This is also “the elegance of the bastard”, to have the freedom to open up art to as many people as possible.
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