Jag et Johnny

Jag comes from a white rural working class background. She talks about the house she grew up in, her aunts and uncles, and recounts birthdays at the village hall, weddings, the dysfunctional family cocoon, TV culture, alcoholism. It's also about madness, precariousness and violence.... Caught between two classes, like a wanderer, Jag plunges us into a return to the fold, with all the complexity it engenders. The meeting of Laurène's language and Jag's phrasing creates a powerful, rhythmic speech, charged with an experience that touches and moves us from laughter to tears more than once. The show takes the form of a stand-up comedy that doesn't seek to make you laugh, but rather to make you sad. The intimate words, the details recounted by the person who lived them, are a precious testimony to the experience of being a defector and to the classism that structures society. But it's also the story of Jag and Johnny, and how their pleasure in being together enables them to escape the classism that conditions love between human-es.