They are two legends. The immense actress Françoise Fabian and the godfather of rap Oxmo Puccino. So when on the stage of the Théâtre du 13e art, in Paris, we hear them, these two voices, bringing out “Research of lost time” during a rehearsal, what magic! Combray, the madeleine, the Verdurin salon… Everything is gracefully orchestrated by the iconoclast Jérémie Lippmann: he directed JoeyStarr in “Eloquence”, a reading of the great speeches delivered at the National Assembly, from Robespierre to Césaire…
If Proust cast a curse on the filmmakers (ah, the Visconti never filmed!), in the theater, few are those who rubbed shoulders with it. This new-style “Recherche” which will be played out in Paris even allows for incursions into lesser-known scenes, such as that of the “Cries of Paris”, when the narrator and Albertine listen to the rumors of Parisian merchants in “La Prisonnière”: “ Mackerel arrives, fresh mackerel, new mackerel ». Chant-like incantations, writes Proust, so Françoise Fabian and Oxmo Puccino have fun. She intones Barbara. He leaves in a rap on the song of the grinder. Marcel would have loved it.
“The “Cries of Paris”! This is the very first scene that Jérémie Lippmann made me read, recalls Oxmo. I struggled ! The rhythm, the scansion… In Proust, there is a whole clandestine, invisible punctuation. You still have to add commas to make the sentence breathe! » « Oxmo” is inexhaustible on the Proustian flow. ” HAS
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