Souriez quoi qu’il arrive

James and Jane Jones lead a quiet existence in an uneventful part of a large British city. Assertive racists, they bring up their teenagers Jenny and John in perfect harmony, until their daughter introduces them to Kwesi Abalo, her boyfriend of Ghanaian origin. There, a series of crimes erupts, embodying the worst identity clichés of our time. In a straightforward and often cruelly funny way, Nick Gill explores how locking down language and imposing its mechanics can lead to xenophobic stupidity and Western imperialism.
On stage, 5 actors and a musician give shape to this virulent and jouissive satire, making violence, patriarchy and incest palpable. For it is the hypocrisies of our times that Laurent Meininger points to: "Souriez quoi qu'il arrive appears as a mirror of ourselves. And we have a grudge against this mirror because it reflects back to us that part of ourselves that we'd rather not see or hear". So we might as well laugh about it... yellow.