ACTAPALABRA

An apple, a few ladders, smoke, a hairy giant, and above all two clowns entangled in a quest that's as absurd as it is existential: these are just some of the ingredients that make Actapalabra a delightful show, full of little nothings, packed with humanity.

In both direction and acting, Philippe Gouin and Joan Mompart, Director of Geneva's Théâtre Am Stram Gram, have created here a little marvel of a show, wordless, but amusingly telling. Choreographed to the millimeter, two clowns cross paths, avoid each other, find each other, help each other out, fail and then try again. Aided and abetted by a technician, the stage becomes a veritable playground for a farandole of funny, poetic situations. The whole thing forms an amusing merry-go-round that provokes laughter and amazement from audiences of all ages, proving that the clown has lost none of his strength. "To take pains with little things is to get to the big things, in time." Samuel Beckett.