This Tuesday, December 20 from 7:45 p.m., live on the radio on Musiq3 and in video streaming on Auvio the new production of La Monnaie, We purge baby, inspired by the famous homonymous vaudeville by Georges Feydeau. This is thehe last work of Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans (1936-2022). An exceptional evening to experience live with Nicolas Blanmont and Camille De Rijck.
Link to the live Auvio of December 20
We purge baby is first of all a vaudeville, a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1910 in one act and already including some musical scenes. It is the story of a family, the Follavoine family and their child, Toto, who refuses to take his purge. While Bastien Follavoine, a porcelain manufacturer and builder of renowned chamber pots “unbreakableregarding to present them to a representative of the French army for a big order and a juicy contract, his wife bursts in to talk regarding the constipation problems of their tyrannical child king, Toto .
Are chamber pots really “unbreakable“? Baby will he manage to be purged? A family comedy, under the baton of Bassem Akiki, with a staging by Richard Brunel and soloists as exceptional as Jodie Devos and Jean-Sébastien Bou, to discover in this end of year on Musiq3 et audio !