• Main Stage

L’immédiat

Showing on February 4–6, 2016

Playing at Vancouver Playhouse

L'immédiat, Association Immédiat, 2016 PuSh Festival
Photo: Vincent-Beaume

Association Immédiat (France)

Here the adventurous spirit of the avant-garde meets the crowd-pleasing slapstick of circus comedy. Camille Boitel’s Association Immédiat is a company out to wow us; their raison d’être is to shake up our ideas about performance and movement. In this piece, Boitel and his fellow Immédiats present a dazzling range of physical invention. The props and sets are crucial to the action: piles of junk, worn wooden furniture, clusters of lights, all arranged with precarious precision. Within these sets the performers twist and turn, lurch and tumble, in a series of movements that look like pratfalls but show the grace and aplomb that only the best physical performers can achieve.

The result is something like dance, something like pantomime—but ultimately the effect is ineffable. The performers move in time with the collapse and transformation of the sets; it’s a world of entropy, with familiar objects taking on a whimsical life of their own. Physical comedy has rarely seemed so expressive— visual anarchy of the Marx Brothers delivered with a French accent. Bridging low comedy and high art, Boitel has created a truly eccentric work. Expect the unexpected, as they say, and prepare to be astonished.

Boitel’s group of seven acrobats ignite the stage with exhilarating energy and extraordinary precision of timing and skilled movement, achieving a superb staged performance.

—playstosee.com

 

L'immédiat, Association Immédiat, 2016 PuSh Festival
Photo: Cyrille Cauvet

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Venue

Vancouver Playhouse

600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver

Showtimes

February 4–6
60 minutes (no intermission)


8:00PM

Tickets

Price level 1: $40 Early bird / $45 Regular
Price level 2: $31 Early bird / $36 Regular

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Eligible on the Youth Passport for advance sales and at the door.



PuSh Pass
Eligible on the PuSh Pass (with $12 surcharge).


Credits

Post-show talk
February 5


Creator: Camille Boitel | Performers: Camille Boitel, Marine Broise, Aldo Thomas, Pascal Le Corre, Céline Schmitt, Marion Lefèbvre, Michaël Philis, Thomas De Broissia | Technical Director: Jacques-Benoît Dardant | Construction: L’immédiat with support of Jerémie Garry, Benoît Finker, Martin Gautron, Martine Staerk | Assistants: Alice Boitel, Nicole Gautier | Production & Touring: L’immédiat, Si Par Hasard


Produced by L’immédiat & Si Par Hasard | Co-produced by Le Merlan, Scène nationale à Marseille; Théâtre de la cité internationale; Le Manege, Scène nationale de Reims | L’immédiat is supported by Ministère de la Culture et de la communication – Drac Ile de France, Ville de Paris, Région Ile de France, Institut Francais for international tours

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