The smoke and the smell of incense slowly diffuse into every corner of the hall of the Comédie des Champs Élysées, a masterpiece by the Perret Brothers, leaving no way out for the spectator.
The curtain opens and gives visitors a glimpse that the evening will be musical or not.
Planted in the center of the stage Philippe Torreton takes place.
His apostles, Richard Kolinka on the right hand, Aristide Rosier on the left hand, also sit behind their instruments.
The trio is not at its first attempt.
After the show “Dude!”
According to the texts of Allain Leprest's album (1986) at the Édouard VII theater, the three returned to the stage for a show that was just as hybrid as their first creation.
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“It is not man who has woven the fabric of life, he is only a thread. Everything it does to the weft, it does to itself. Seattle chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes (1854).
Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Inuit prayer, Indian poetry and the words of Native Americans let their message heard, sometimes coming from very far away….
From the 16th to the 21st century, Philippe Torreton drew on the texts of poets and poetesses to create a whole collection of words that question the limits of the exploitation of the planet, question our relationship to nature or even address the finitude of the world.
Stubborn drums, delicate kalimba or melodious hang drum accompany these alarming predictions.
The musicians sometimes summon blues, rock, but also electronic music in a successful instrumental creation that manages to underline without stifling the texts.
The big meeting of the arts therefore takes place on stage for a half-declaimed half-sung performance.
Philippe Torreton in “Here we are!”
at the Comédie des Champs Élysées.
Stephanie Fagadau
Philippe Torreton, meanwhile, is sometimes a singer, sometimes an oracle with acerbic texts.
He activates, his body tenses and spits out his words in a chiaroscuro proposed by Dimitri Vassiliu to the lights.
Despite these worrying forecasts, the group manages to drag the room and even to offer a real encore to the delight of their listeners.
“Here we are!”, until April 10 at the Comédie des Champs Élysées, 15 avenue Montaigne (Paris 8th).
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