Jérôme Rouger has already performed several times in Plan-les-Ouates, notably with his unforgettable show, Why Chickens Prefer to Be Raised in Battery Cages. Using a similar creative "work in progress" approach, he returns with Advice to the Audience.
In the theater, audience members are rarely aware of the influence they have on the quality of a performance. Who has ever heard a spectator declare at the end of a show, "I wasn't good"? And yet… Drawing on his extensive stage experience and mastering the art of eloquence, Jérôme Rouger offers, with his characteristic humor, a spectacular lecture in the form of a study on the audience, and delivers valuable advice along the way.
"The starting point was a 30-minute version that I had the opportunity to perform several times during season presentations and which wasn't necessarily intended to become anything else." But a strong interest in this issue of the actor-spectator relationship, in performance, and in the audience, meant that I continued to explore it, to ponder it, and that I accumulated many notes which made me realize that I hadn't fully explored my approach with this short version. These notes thus became a creation, presented at the Théâtre de Belleville in Paris in December 2024.
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