We know the fear of paying for a show ticket so as not to make us smile, of being bored or even of being embarrassed by obscene and inappropriate jokes.

The downside of this depressing decor is the little nuggets who come to nest in the world of stand-up. What we found this week will satisfy all your wishes laugh that made your stomach hurtFrom sisterhood visceral and also reflections on a distant world Strangewhere we find ourselves tossed in the middle anti “woke” or marketers using feminism as a marketing argument. All this is the meeting we promise you In Vigneaux Veritasa 1 hour and 30 minute show written, directed and starring Caroline Vigneaux.

When a woman brings a world to life from an empty stage

For this former lawyer turned humorist (and we can’t congratulate her enough for listening to this piece of madness that would make any school counselor scream), humor isn’t just about writing. Certainly, the show is impeccably written. Never gaps or redundancies; always, a progression, details that become clearer as you progress, running gag something we hadn’t expected and which reassures us in the idea that this actress knows what she’s doing.

Furthermore, evoking Caroline Vigneaux as an actress makes particular sense while on stage as fifteen characters at the same time, which are just as many facets of the same woman who perceives the world around her.

in the middle of a scene ultra minimalist. Voice, posture, gesture, grimacesor even simple microphone on his tripodthe comedian doubles down on his mischief and creativity to carry his show far beyond a textin the middle ofa completely empty table. It reaches us like this to make people laugh, unfold our imaginationtake us with you in the memory of a anecdote bitethe perspective of a fantasyOR, anger that arise from unfortunate encounters with the trash of the patriarchy, like masculinists or sexual abusers. All this, in the greatest minimalism possible.

Young, old, neither young nor old: a woman who lives, dreams, feels, thinks and moves forward

Imitation, self-irony, immersion in memories, situations or placesCaroline Vigneaux highlights during her show the multiple aspects of his life woman. And it is precisely here that the singularity of this show lies. Because, at 49 years old, she “he is exactly halfway through his life, so he still understands the young and already the old. » After this sentence we have not found a better synthesis of the concept ofIn Vigneaux Veritas.

Depending on who perceives her, Caroline is young, old or on the contrary, neither young nor old. Behind its dynamism, In Vigneaux Veritas it opens up to us the perspective of a woman who, because she escapes these two structuring boxes, only has his sincerity offer. Freed from any bad faith, mockery or cynicism, her only prejudice remains that of observation, questions and empathy. From that moment on the magic happens. Vigneaux opens a peaceful, thoughtful and intelligent perspective on topics we’ve seen too much caricatural, denatured, reinterpreted in the wrong direction (Like when we hear that feminists get rich by ruining careers or destroying Disney movies.)

She uses the laugh AS a solid bridge between generations and people among whom all communication, all contact seemed interrupted. It makes writing and the scene an infinite spacewhich is commensurate the sensibility, empathy, female intelligencewhich definitely escapes any pattern, and explains why we can be completely so lawyer and comedian, mother but still daddy’s girl, feminist and obsessed with Brad Pitt’s butt.

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