It is at the Théâtre du Marais that Marc Tourneboeuf put down his suitcases on Saturday evening to take us on a poetic and tenderly funny journey, a journey orchestrated by Grétel Delattre in a very dynamic staging.
A double journey
This journey of just over an hour is first and foremost his story, that of a trip to Portugal for a love story, which he intertwines finely with the history of Portugal and France as a metaphor for his idyll. Far from stand-up, Marc Tourneboeuf chooses rhymes and poetry to take us with him into the meanders of history.
Rhymes yes, but dusted, in a very free and resolutely current style, as evidenced by these videos on social networks, where again he handles the purest French literary style with this hint of insolence and nonconformism that once made the reputation of this country.
The poet and the lover
It is therefore hardly surprising that as a lover and lover of poetry he quotes the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, also a great figure with a resolutely free style and above all a great lover.
The Lisbon idyll of Marc Tourneboeuf is reminiscent of Fernando Pessoa's letters to Ofelia Queiroz, more modern and disheveled. Sometimes a squeaky hair (the meeting with the Portuguese father-in-law is comical). This young multi-talented actor does not hesitate to use self-mockery and delivers himself with a beautiful sincerity.
This is also what leads him to evoke in filigree his Norman origins and the shortcomings of Parisian customs. Paris, this city where people define your identity better than you can… And the journey to be declined at other levels.
The editor's opinion:
If you like quirky and intelligent humor, the French language, travel, Pessoa, Portugal, Normandy and Mont Saint Michel run there! It's twirling and full of energy! On the other hand if for you Mont Saint Michel is in Brittany, you will have to go your way …
The poetic but not boring story of a lover on a journey
Théâtre du Marais 37 rue Volta 75003 PARIS
Saturdays at 9pm spring break December 24
