Cécile Laporte’s biography does not appear in camera programs. Normal. The performer spends three hours on stage telling his life story. Cecile (the title of the show) is not a long, quiet river, but unfolds a tumult of experiences during which we learn that the performer has, in general: hosted a stay for disabled adults; clowned in a children’s oncology ward; joined the Fuck for Forest movement, an online platform that fights deforestation by selling its members’ amateur porn videos; fought in the defense zone (ZAD) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes; he stayed in a psychiatric hospital.
Lots of stories and a (happy) anomaly: Cécile Laporte is not a professional actress. However, Marion Duval portrays this extraordinary personality, who does not shy away from scandalous confidences and fights her intimate and political battles in the anonymity of the everyday, whose journey, in turn, is summed up in a few synthetic words.
Born in Nice but trained at Manufacture (a theater school based in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she lives and works), founder in 2011 of the company Chris Cadillac, show designer who eschews formal forms in favor of burning, even dangerous. , face to face with viewers, Marion Duval, 40, may be out of the ordinary, but she chooses her words carefully: “When I created my first piece, Las Vanitasin 2011, we did it outside the institutional circuits. It gave me time to build it with the audience. I do not work on contemplative objects, but on meeting points. The shows grow with the diversity of perspectives. » It also takes place on the fertile ground of friendship between people who like to live together on stage. And it doesn’t matter if they are professionals or amateurs.
Struggle against the shackles of capitalism
In 2023, Marion Duval created thus The Shit Showa project for the street (it’s a regular at the Aurillac Festival) that brings together around fifteen comrades: “The stage is what I found to live the life I want to live. The solution and to be in a group and share everything. » It’s also a clever way to bring out figures like Cécile Laporte and, through the latter, modern forms of activism in the struggle against the shackles of capitalism. There is no question of giving up the dream of a better world, of practicing cultural harmony, or of closing ourselves off into individualism.
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