The title announced the color.
In her new one-woman-show called "Boys Boys Boys", a nod to Sabrina's ole ole hit in the 1980s, Florence Foresti was bound to talk to us about men in her own way.
Uninhibited.
Tender and daring.
Ultramodern and a tad subversive.
Intimate and universal.
Contract fulfilled all along the line, as we were able to see during its last running-in dates before its arrival at the Marigny theater (Paris VIII) from September 28.
She arrives on stage on an energetic choreography which pretends to be out of breath.
Florence Foresti is 48 years old.
She repeats her age throughout the show and even indulges in the luxury of knowingly aging herself in the “fifties” box.
As if to better observe from the top of this new promontory the themes she has explored throughout her career.
As if to shed another light on the relationships between men and women, the complexes, the status of mother, all these subjects which have irrigated these previous shows.
And it works.
“If I were a man, I wouldn't be a captain, I'd be in prison!
»
"Boys Boys Boys" is both in continuity and in rupture.
In continuity, because we find there all the ingredients that make Foresti the most outstanding comedian of the last 20 years, this energetic mixture of self-mockery and air of the times passed through the sieve offering us a magnifying mirror of small and great failings of our time.
Breaking because, perhaps hardened by the controversy of the Caesars 2020 that she had presented in the middle of the Polanski affair, Queen Florence does not play the consensual card.
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The borders of seduction that are being redrawn thanks to the #MeToo movement?
"The men respect us now… but I don't have time!"
» Willingly acknowledging to help the guys « to project themselves » by encouraging them – a little, a lot – to kiss her, she hijacks Diane Tell's song: « If I were a man, I wouldn't be a captain, I'd be in jail !
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Sentences which, taken out of context, may be controversial.
That would be a shame.
Because the nuance is built throughout a show that pushes Manichaeism to the sidewalk.
"The war of the sexes" that some would like to replay right now?
“Unbalanced”, affirms the comedian well aware since childhood that there is only one strong sex, obviously female.
Waltz the taboos, the menopause, the age gap in couples
Powerful, (im)relevant, the show is also and above all funny, very funny.
Delicately incorporated into a very personal and hard-hitting stand-up, a few sketches are already shaping up to be hits.
The birth of religion.
The Italian stylist in charge of "designing" the female gender.
Chargers that go missing at home and will echo so many parents of teens.
With Foresti also waltz taboos, menopause, sexuality, the age gap in couples.
At the end of the show, she reveals that she has found love with a boy much younger than her.
The opportunity for a last delicious game.
And this sentence, simple on paper, but which the time has made surprisingly corrosive: “I love men.
" That's good.
Men – and women – love Foresti.
Editor's note:
4.5/5
"Boys Boys Boys", show by Florence Foresti from September 28 at Marigny (Paris VIII, sold out).
Then on tour and then at the Olympia in December 2023.
