With her references to “Dirty Dancing,” a cult romantic comedy from the late 1980s, she was sure to draw women into her show.
But if Chloé Oliveres' bet is largely successful with her only one on stage, it is precisely because the entire audience follows her without exception.
The Val-de-Marnaise actress, just 40 years old, tells us about her life as a woman, actress and lover in “When I grow up, I will be Patrick Swayze”.
A show which was a hit at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in Paris (8th arrondissement), and now finds its audience on tour throughout France.
This funny, touching show, but also a starting point for universal reflections on the fate of women, has just been selected for the Molière 2024 in the alone-on-stage category.
“Playing at Champigny means exposing myself in front of my neighbors”
Chloé Oliveres will perform it again in Val-de-Marnais on March 15 at the Saint-Maur-des-Fossés theater and on April 4 in Cachan.
On February 2, it was with “additional pressure” that she took the stage at the Jean-Vilar cultural center in Champigny.
“Playing in front of the parents of students at my son’s school or in front of the mothers of his friends from the athletics club was like exposing myself in front of my neighbors,” she laughs the next day a spectacle.
Living in the Boullereaux district for six years, Chloé Oliveres grew up on the other side of the Marne, in Perreux-sur-Marne.
First stage at the leisure center and theater classes at the Center des Bords de Marne
She recounts in her show her first scene, in “The Hairy Monster”, produced by the air center.
And as her show is an autofiction based on real and intimate facts, we leave the theater with the impression of having met a friend, a very open woman, whom her parents often took on trips.
The future actress, whom some know for having seen her in the series “Le bureau des legendes” or in the second season of
“Mytho”
,
learned comedy in college.
“In the Center of the banks of the Marne, a place that I love deeply,” praises the actress.
I took theater classes there, but I also did rhythmic gymnastics and modern jazz dance.
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So many courses whose profits are still used every evening on stage by Chloé Oliveres.
Because basing your only stage performance on recurring references to “Dirty Dancing” means imposing complicated dance steps, but whose success impresses the audience who knows the film well.
A choreographer helped her detail each footwork of Patrick Swayze or each sway of Bébé, aka Jennifer Grey.
A show very inspired by feminist authors
Make no mistake, Chloé Oliveres' only one on stage is not a simple copy of this cult romantic comedy.
She uses the film as a guide for her reflections and does not hesitate to quote her favorite feminist authors.
Volume II of The Second Sex by Simone Beauvoir or the pages of Annie Ernaux are among her bedside books.
She saw her mother struggle as a child to pursue a career as a research scientist in physics at the University of Créteil, while raising her and her sister.
His father went from one church to another, throughout France, to restore wall works.
Also read: Why “Dirty Dancing” is one of the most feminist films in cinema history
In 2015, the actress co-founded the company Les Filles de Simone, which has always used humor to raise awareness about the women's cause.
“It was also Champigny who welcomed us to put on our first play and who scheduled it so that we could rehearse it before playing at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in 2018 and 2019”, recalls with happiness the actress.
An actress who ardently defends that “women can have a full and complete life without necessarily having a man on their arm.
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Chloé Oliveres will still perform “When I grow up I will be Patrick Swayze” at the start of the school year, but she is starting to imagine her next show and dreams of rehearsing it in her “favorite theater”: the Center des Bords de Marne!
“When I grow up I’ll be Patrick Swayze.”
March 15 at 8:30 p.m.,
at the Saint-Maur theater
, prices from 10 to 28 euros.
And on April 4 at 8:30 p.m. at the
Jacques Carat theater
in Cachan, prices from 12 to 22 euros.