HAPPY END
2024/2025 — Season 69
Sara Forever/Matthieu Barbin / Photo by: Sylvain La Rosa
Matthieu Barbin

Dynasties

Directed by: Sara Forever/Matthieu Barbin
(dance performance)
Small Arts Platform
Cast
  • Sara Forever/Matthieu Barbin
Credits
  • Artistic consultation: Dalila Kathir, Florent Gouëlou
  • Light design and technical direction: François Boulet
  • Sound design: Géraldine Belin
  • Costume design: Aymerick Zana, Lion Ascendant Connasse
  • Wigs, headpieces: Hitsublu
  • Video: Florent Gouëlou, Aurélien Binault
  • Executive Production: Virginie Hammel

Producer: Le petit bureau
Co-production Théâtre de la Cité - CDN Toulouse Occitanie, CAPC - contemporary art museum of the city of Bordeaux. With the support of the General Directorate of Artistic Creation - Ministry of Culture, of La menagerie de Verre, Paris in the framework and of La Maison des Métallos Paris

Description

We've all wondered what it was like to grow up as Blanket Jackson, son of the fallen pop star, what it's like to be Chaz Bono, son of a gay icon, or to be named after Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of a sex symbol with an ultra-patriarchal heritage. How were these children built? Did they grow up under the pressure of the weight left by their parents in popular culture, or by embracing their parentage?

Dynasties is a cabinet of curiosities in which Sara Forever plays a succession of family portraits. A soap opera which, through grotesque situations and reconstructions of anecdotes, presents the lives of well-known personalities and their descendants. This cabaret then brings us into the intimacy of these sons and daughters in order to reveal a more universal story which invites us to ask ourselves whose heirs we are.

ATTENTION

Performance in French with subtitles.