Le Dindon

What if Feydeau was the punkest playwright of the 20th century? Aurore Fattier offers a free and queer rereading of this vaudeville masterpiece: the story of Lucienne Vatelin, a woman of the world, married to a lawyer, who believes she's been cheated on and wants revenge by taking a lover, while a former mistress of her husband resurfaces, herself pursued by her own... All this little world is going to be embroiled in a crazy story partly set at the Ultimus hotel, where adulterous couples, prostitutes and homosexual people meet and where Parisian bigwigs indulge in orgies in all discretion.

So, for Aurore Fattier, the motif of deception is really just a pretext for Feydeau to explore the underground world of the night, which he himself walked all his life. A contemporary of Charcot and Freud, Feydeau stages fantastical, nightmarish situations. His characters seem to be driven by an inexhaustible libidinal force that reveals our flaws, our impulses, our stupidity. And makes us laugh.

The show brings this laughter into play and questions it. How can the amoralism of Feydeau's work be heard in the age of #MeToo? Triggering a chain of disasters, misunderstandings, the worst of human failings revealed: the implacable mechanics of desire produce a cruel face-off between the actors, laid bare, and the audience.