Paradoxe

What if mourning could be tamed? Repeat it, move it, replay it. PARADOXE is a journey through mourning, yes, but a joyfully offbeat one. Drawing on intimate memories and imagined narratives, Guillaume Vincent and Florence Janas share their experiences of loss, particularly the loss of the mother figure. On stage, the director and actress take it in turns to embody beloved figures, those slowly slipping towards death, those on whom our anxieties are projected, mothers, brothers, lovers... With the light-hearted seriousness of children playing make-believe, together they form a duo both clownish and haunted, traversed by the memory of those who fade away. It all begins with mourning, but fiction soon takes over. Tales intersect, anecdotes collide and new stories emerge, revealing the complexity of family ties. With a lively, biting pen, they turn the dramas of everyday life into a human fresco that's as funny as it is moving. In this freewheeling form, where the narrative is built up in shifts, PARADOXE thwarts intimacy with fiction, tragedy with laughter, and celebrates, above all, theater as a space for all kinds of jubilation.