The boosted “Oscar” opens the season at the Grenier de Toulouse
When it was created in 2019, it attracted 8,000 spectators. The doors will slam again and the laughter will burst out, Wednesday at l’Escale, with the revival of the play “Oscar”, a gem of vaudeville.
There’s nothing like opening a season with a deliciously zany, colorfully crazy, totally hilarious and completely cult piece. Vaudeville Jewel” She has Feydeau, Labiche and even Molière…” underlined Stéphane Batlle who staged it during its creation by the Grenier de Toulouse in 2019, “Oscar” a play by Claude Manier (made famous by the cinema interpretation of Louis de Funès), will open at l’Escale, from this Wednesday, September 21 and for eleven performances, the troupe’s season.
Little reminder ; Oscar is, in a setting itself already overcharged, the crazy day of Bertrand Barnier (Pierre Matras), an irascible business manager who will live, the most delirious 24 hours of his life. Falling from Charybdis to Scylla, going from misunderstandings to misunderstandings, chaining disasters and shelling out bad news like others count pearls. From early morning, he is woken up by Christian Martin, one of his employees who comes to ask him, next, for a colossal raise and the hand of his daughter Colette. And this, while announcing to him that he stole millions from him… Thereupon, icing on the baba, his daughter announces to him that she is pregnant… from Oscar his driver, who has engaged in the legion. In the aftermath, his good part marry the baron he wanted for his daughter,
Do not throw any more, it’s an explosion: Barnier is at the end of his rope, (at the end of his life according to the current formula) but as the animal still has energy to supply a power plant, he shouts, doors slam, suitcases full of banknotes change hands and bags of knots are tied on all floors…
And after….
Nine shows, including five creations, are on the program for this new season of the company which, in addition to the Es cale in Tournefeuille, will settle down three times this year at the Grenier Théâtre and also at the Théâtre du Pavé. Thus, from October 6 to 22 , at the Grenier Théâtre, place at the “ Melancholy Watcher”. journey in the work of Guillaume Apollinaire directed by Hervé Van der Meulen Then, from October 25 to 29 “L”, by Muriel Darras will be presented at the Théâtre du Pavé. From December 16 to 31, at l’Escale, directed by Stéphane Batlle and Pierre Matras, it’s “Ubu King” by Alfred Jarry, a masterpiece of the theater of the absurd, which makes the end-of-year celebrations even crazier. “Irresistible” by Fabrice Roger-Lacan from January 26 to February 11. Jealousy when you hold us… On February 15, 16, 18 and 19, at the Lighthouse in Tournefeuille, the Grenier will hold its “One man show”… by revisiting the most famous sketches of our favorite comedians. Another creation, from March 3 to 19 at L’Escale, with “Othello” masterpiece of William Shakespeare on a production by Laurent Collombert”An unwelcome visit” by Copi. Presented from May 12 to 28 at L’Escale directed by Loïc Carcassès, this play urges you to live with ardor, fantasy, zaniness and above all free from judgment…Finally, the Grenier will end its season with one of his greatest successes, namely the revival, from June 1 to 17 at the Grenier Théâtre, of “The Stranger” by Albert Camus