Current conversations transposed into the boudoir of Queen Marie Antoinette: totally caustic, “The dream and the complaint” is offered once more this evening Thursday, in Toulouse, at the Sorano theater.
She destroys everything. And nothing corresponds to what is supposed. In “The dream and the complaint”, Nicole Genovese, by mixing past and present in a joyful imbroglio, plays on all the discrepancies and parallels the end of two worlds. With a simple decoration made of painted panels which peel off according to the situation, representing a living room or a corner of the park of the Palace of Versailles, Queen Marie Antoinette, accent of the Midi, dress with baskets and large wig, converses with the Princess of Lamballe ( here called Véro) of its new kitchen “with storage everywhere” then in bulk, of the merits and defects of private clinics and the public hospital (“gluey food”), of coworking or of the fever of its youngest child . An insipid conversation, with broken sticks, between counter briefs and very average French concerns, interspersed with silences and blissful smiles, to which King Louis and the Count of Artois joined. Anachronisms, but not only since the characters themselves are not what they are supposed to be: here the queen takes care of a shop (rue Massena in Nice) and the king, under his wig, is just a foolish father. Passes by, in jeans and sneakers, a trendy redneck couple who have gone to see a “modeling exhibition” and who “are tired of paying taxes for people who don’t give a damn”. A musician plays the viola da gamba, there is classical singing, a song by Amel Bent too… Dotted with memorable lines- “People love money too much.” “But no, people are like everyone else.” , this juxtaposition of contemporary conversations balanced in the 18th century, just before the end of royalty, poses a terribly corrosive look at our breathless Republic and at its society which has become uneducated, materialistic and without any spirituality. Jubilant, instructive and played with comic talent certain .
Nicole Clodi
JThursday, March 16 at the Sorano Theater (allées Jules Guesde). Prices: from 8 to 22 €. Phone: 05 32 09 3235