He feels very alone on stage this actor! Admittedly, he is, recently abandoned by his playing partner. So, he will have to furnish as best he can.
And he succeeds rather very well than badly besides…Karim Mendil has talent and plays in this show a flawless humorous score that carries the spectator. The humor is perfectly chiseled and the exchanges with the audience make us quickly forget the title of the play. He does wonderfully this actor to fill both the emptiness caused by the absence of Mary, and to furnish the space too. Because the pressure of its omnipresent and demanding producer is very tangible.
Behind the scenes, a stage manager works in silence, which nevertheless occupies an essential place. Aren't the people in the shadows very often essential to the smooth running of things…?! Karim Mendil deserves to be more at the top of the bill. The play is elegant and behind a humor that a priori might seem easy, hide many intense and profound innuendos: the cause of women, ecology, fatherhood, adolescence, school …
But on closer inspection, Seul(s) also raises the complex situation that many intermittent performers have gone through in recent months. The show must go on of course. Again and again and probably more than ever, especially when some artists like Karim Mendil wet the shirt and fight for the boards to remain the place of all possibilities.
Seul(s) is a deeper piece than it seems, initially led by a fiery, energetic and very endearing actor whose well-crafted humor, light and intense at the same time will certainly not remain a dead letter.
This only on stage was played last summer at the Avignon Festival and will be programmed soon before the end of 2021 Right Bank in Paris (dates and place in progress).
It is already programmed at the Théo Théâtre in Paris in February and March and also reprogrammed at the Avignon Festival in July 2022.
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