Hecq and Lesort unleash insanity with their “Little Shop of Horrors” | EUROtoday

Vou liked their loopy Bourgeois gentleman on the Comédie-Française, their fantastic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Gulliver Or Hilton sistersto call just some of the loopy reveals they placed on with 4 palms? Run and see this Little Shop of Horrors signed by the duo Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort. Already staged on the Opéra-Comique in 2022, this remaining model of the well-known musical-vegetable comedy – which was, amongst different issues, an enormous success on Broadway – returns to the Porte Saint-Martin theater till December 31 and gives an absolute antidote, we assure you, to the ambient gloom.

Lean again in your chair, neglect the waltz of Prime Ministers, the ballooning debt and the suffocating world. The curtain rises: right here you might be in New York, in entrance of Mr. Mushnik’s little crooked flower store: the roses are wilting, the cabinets are collapsing, the money register is empty and no clients come by the door. With little assist from his two workers, Audrey and Seymour – two candy naive individuals in comparison with their pomp – the shady florist threatens to exit of enterprise. Until a wierd plant, found by Seymour within the again room, abruptly stops the decline and brings dazzling fame and fortune to the little gang… But at what value? Because this abominable inexperienced plant that they show within the window and which attracts crowds has the particularity of being carnivorous. However, if the neighborhood rats or the legs of the neighboring butcher’s store had been appropriate for this creature which continues to develop, all the things can be for one of the best in one of the best of all attainable worlds: alas, the plant, as we suspect, feeds solely on people…

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So a lot for the story. Gold in bar for Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort, conversant in weird fables, lovers of horrific scenes and genius puppeteers. With them, there may be by no means any extra of assets, by no means any technical one-upmanship: we tinker, we invent and we now have enjoyable, like youngsters, with three items of string and hellish vitality. The actors are for probably the most half good – particular point out to the unimaginable biker rocker performed Fonzie-style by Arnaud Denissel – the units, quite simple, work completely and the staging is, as typical, ingenious and loopy as will be. ” I’m hungry ! », screams the plant on stage, greedily swallowing a few of the actors and unceremoniously spitting out footwear and viscera. In the viewers, younger kids, palms over their eyes, select to observe, fearful however hilarious, by the gaps of their little fingers. But all of the adults snicker, jubilant at this huge nonsense, tasting this theatrical insanity which frees us, for 2 hours, from the insanity of the time. What a foot!

Little Shop of Horrors, by Howard Ashman, directed by Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort, on the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin till January 17.