From April 18 to May 11, 2025, Théâtre Libre welcomes Patrick Robine for his new creation Dernières nouvelles du large. A humorist, comedian and burlesque poet, Robine is best known for his singular performances, blending absurdity, unbridled imagination and inventive language. With this show, he seems to be returning to a surreal, maritime universe, where the poetry of the unusual takes center stage.
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The show features a sea expedition aboard a ship with an evocative name: Le Topinambour. The aim of this unlikely odyssey? To find a giant mussel hidden somewhere in the ocean, on a floating island. This zany starting point serves as a pretext for a succession of tableaux and inventions featuring fantastical elements such as bellowing buoys, a hammerhead shark and domestic sponges. The universe evoked seems to oscillate between daydreaming and poetic delirium.
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The show is aimed primarily at audiences who enjoy theater of the absurd, offbeat poetry and language games. Fans of the world of Raymond Devos, Jacques Tati and Olivier Saladin might also find a familiar echo. Patrick Robine's wealth of imagination, coupled with his art of absurd imitation - according to the presentation, he's the world's only imitator of the Connecticut potato's cry - augurs an atypical performance, halfway between poetic one-man-show and farcical tale.
On the other hand, this show may disconcert audiences in search of a linear narrative, more conventional humor or an engaged message. The deliberately abstruse universe, the abundant imagination and the absence of conventional narrative reference points may not suit those with little sensitivity to absurdist humor or nonsensical poetry.
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Patrick Robine has been part of the French humor and theater scene for several decades, with an artistic identity all his own. This show, true to his style, seems to offer a sensory and burlesque journey that mixes marine images with everyday objects, with a taste for the incongruous.
With Dernières nouvelles du large, Patrick Robine invites audiences to cast off the moorings of rationality and plunge into a whimsical, joyously disconcerting world. This show, somewhere between a maritime adventure and a daydream, would be in the tradition of poetic, funny and disturbing theater, to be discovered from April 18 to May 11, 2025 at Théâtre Libre.
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Dates and Opening Time
From April 18, 2025 to May 11, 2025
Prices
€25 - €33
Booking
le-theatrelibre.fr
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