It is a piece that starts off like a masterful conference, with a slightly stiff teacher, long skirt and glasses. However, "Darwin's Sextape" quickly slips into animal sexual delirium. Everything is both true and incredible. "The reign of the living is the reign of all the possibilities of the unthinkable," warns the speaker, Brigitte Mounier, author and director.
This play is "a response to the resurgence of homophobic currents," she defends. This show puts the species back in their right place and recalls, through a few joyful danced and sung examples, the incredible diversity of sexual practices, modes of seduction and reproduction that are nature ”.
On this level, spectators take full sight and hearing. Two actors and two volunteers, tied back to back, show the possible sexual combinations. The Corsican slug self-pollinates with its phallus seven times larger than it. Crabs and shrimps which are born male become female while growing, the red spider reproduces at a distance by depositing its pool of sperm so that the female sits on it. The show scrolls through an anthology of reproduction modes, sometimes flamboyant, sometimes funny insect costumes.
The examples are so abundant that it is sometimes difficult to follow and we do not remember the names of all the stupid people. The piece goes wild when the two actors twist strings and crawl like slugs, mate through an orifice on the head. The conference finally explodes in Slavic excited bonobos. Who knew that these monkeys had sexual intercourse every 90 minutes, sometimes between males? A species at the height of sexual freedom, where women are at the top of the hierarchy.
EDITOR'S NOTE: 3/5
"La Sextape de Darwin" , from 12 years old, until March 17, Tuesday to Saturday at 9 pm, Saturday at 4:45 pm. At the La Bruyère Theater (IXth). From 17 to 44 euros. Phone. 01.48.74.76.99.
