C’est La Nuit Qui’il Faut Attraper La Lumiere

C’est La Nuit Qui’il Faut Attraper La Lumiere
Clown: Orianne Bernard
Director: Giovanni Fusetti
From: Strasbourg, France

With what we do in clown theatre some shows live on a very fine edge and if the performer in a solo show is off the show can just suck. It is impossible to be on every night and we have all had nights where it does not matter what we do – nothing works. This might be the case here. Speaking with other people that saw the same show, one person had friend that told him to come and his friend who was not there on this night loved this show on another night. The three people I spoke with felt the pretty much felt the same as me.

Orianne Bernard looks like a very talented performer that is well trained. The show was developed with Giovanni Fusetti who directed it. There were a few nice moments… but only moments in this show where Orianne pays great attention to detail and really enjoys what she is doing. Many small moments where thrown away. Details lost and props used very little, not completely explored or just basic uses. If you have a prop or costume element it must be used and used well. Orianne vocals were annoying – which can work… but I just did not believe they were real. Did not believe Orianne it seemed like she was pretending instead of being honest. A few people I spoke with after the show had the same problem I had – we were falling asleep and could not wait for this show to be over. Repeating the same thing over and over again can be one of the funniest things in the world. Here it did not work. I lay most of the problems with this show not on Orianne but the director Giovanni Fusetti who also helped develop this show. The director Giovanni Fusetti should have caught most of the main problems with this show. The most important one… being real, if Orianne would have believed in what she was doing this show might have worked. That is a director’s job. It did have some of the very basic lofty ideas of avant-garde theatre but nothing new. There were lots of ideas in this show and lots of statements - lots of cleverness, which resulted in a very cluttered show, again the director is sitting on the outside and needs to see these things and redirect them. The story it looks like they have just started to flush out and find. For me they have not found the story yet. It did not take me into her world… that clown magic of theatre did not happen for me – the number of times the audience laughed were few. Three people walk out before the show was half over. The show seemed to have about three different endings.

Again maybe she just had an off night. We all have nights that suck. If you saw this show on a night that you loved it please post your comments - because we can all have an off night.