Le Nouveau Monde
Attention Fragile
Board balacing, knife throwing
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Presentation
After the solitary adventure Monsieur Mouche, for this performance Thomas Garcia mixes clowning and music by joining forces with two musicians who are bursting to share their love for the ukulele. The show features three ukulelists on stage for their first concert after years spent practicing… It’s the big day and they are ready to give their all! While playing both quirky covers and original songs, Le Grand Orchester de Poche [The Big Pocket Orchestra] has one overriding goal: to simply finish the concert.
However, these three clown musicians don’t quite measure up to their ambitions and their concert flirts with catastrophe. The musicians bicker, they don’t agree about what should be played or said. The music stands are too fragile, the soloist is too uptight, some musicians start on the fourth beat instead of the first, tempos aren’t respected... In the audience, there is a pretty woman, so their egos inflate… And when alcohol shows up on stage, they erupt in squabbles and the whole thing begins to fall apart.
Artistic direction Thomas Garcia
With Karim Malhas, Thomas Garcia, and Joris Barcaroli.
Direction Charlotte Saliou
Artistic collaboration Elise Ouvrier-Buffet
Manager Antoine Hansberger
Production Aurélie Péglion
Production Gorgomar company
Coproduction Théâtre de Grasse, L’Entre-Pont, La Fabrique Mimont, and the Scène de Cirque festival
Creative assistance Région Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur
With the support of the City of Nice and the Alpes-Maritimes Departmental Council
The Grogomar company was created in Nice in 2007 with the co-directors Aurélie Péglion (actress, puppeteer, clown) and Thomas Garcia (actor, clown, composer, stage director, self-taught musician). Its totem is an octopus, with entwined legs that draw up and invent shows in which everything is possible.
This octopus speaks the language of clowning, puppetry, and burlesque in order to prove that, in spite of the absurdity of destiny, life is worth living. It introduces the audience to sensitive and fundamentally optimistic heroes like Grosse Patate or Monsieur Mouche. In the meantime, it humbly attempts to honor a few famous figures: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Blake Edwards, Pierre Richard, Les Marx Brothers…
