The Théâtre de la maison du Peuple raises the curtain on its new 2022-2023 season and presents its rich and ambitious program which is intended, it is the objective, within everyone’s reach.
In a room full as an egg, impatience was at the rendezvous, Friday evening, for the presentation of the 2022-2023 season of the Théâtre de la maison du Peuple. After a few weeks of interruption, the Millavois were keen to find their room for a launch with great fanfare.
Impatience, and also a lot of euphoria at the idea of discovering what this new schedule will be made of – patiently built by the theater team and its director Stéphane Chatellard – which takes care to respect the founding principle of subsidized stages, namely diversity. Such a variety which is obviously found in the program for all ages this season which oscillates between “projects by renowned artists, discoveries, in all disciplines” argues the director.
After jet lagplayed on Friday for the opening of the Maison Millavoise season – a show particularly appreciated by a hall in virtual levitation – the Millavois will be able to discover no less than 45 shows for a total of 85 performances.
“A rich, ambitious and quite atypical program for a city of this size”, recognizes Stéphane Chatellard who is inaugurating his 11th season as director of the Maison du Peuple theatre.
Chamoux, Damasio, Morel
Headliners of this new year, as their reputations precede them, Camille Chamoux, Alain Damasio and François Morel will be there this season. “It is also advisable to book fairly early”entrusts the director, so much the places are snapped up quickly.
cult science fiction author, “spiritual guide of a rebellious generation” according to the Inrockuptibles, Alain Damasio will be the first to meet the public of the glove city – on October 14 – with Go into colora rock-fiction concert where he shares the stage with guitarist Yan Péchin known, among others, for his long and fruitful collaboration with Alain Bashung.
“ The one we no longer present”, actor and radio columnist François Morel, will be in Millau on January 17 with a tribute to the tightrope walker of words, Raymond Devos. Entitled I have doubtsnamed after one of the sketches of “the man with the bow tie”this show questions the universe, the madness of existence, incommunicability…
Revealed by Camille attacks Where Born under GiscardCamille Chamoux will also present her latest solo performance The time to live, March 4. The one that some have been able to discover in the series The flame by Jonathan Cohen, delivers here a sociological comedy on the injunction to optimize time. “ In 70 minutes flat!”
Far from being exhaustive, this triumvirate should not make us forget the continuation of the festivities – there are many – which should occupy the Millavois until May 2023. The good things, it is known, always having an end. An ending, presumably happy, for “a seasonconcludes the cultural assistant, Nicolas Wörhel, which invites us to a wonderful experience, rich in inventive forms and artistic crossovers that shape the creation of tomorrow”.
Les Givrées, the winter eco-festival
Festival “refreshing” Led by a dynamic and inventive collective, Les Givrées return to Millau and South Aveyron for a second winter festival of the name, scheduled from January 20 to 28. On stage all week, a whole section of French song and its up-and-coming performers such as Laurent Montagne, Les Fouteurs de joie, Le Noiseur, Bonbon Vodou, Loïc Lantoine and Marc Nammour, Marion Rampal and Pierre-François Blanchard. A remedy for winter melancholy to enjoy frozen…
Stéphane Chatellard: “A program for all audiences”
If the faithful are there, the public has rather lost the habit of going out. How to arouse desire in this post-Covid context? The entire theater team is mobilized to find a maximum of different audiences. This is our goal this year. Thus, we have implemented several measures: a varied program, oscillating between projects for all audiences, projects by renowned artists, discoveries, and this, in all disciplines. We have also worked on prices that are thought out to be the most affordable according to the shows hosted, but also a series of reduced prices, a profitable subscription from the second show, suspended tickets, and new this year, the possibility offered to young people to pay with the Culture Pass.
In addition to welcoming it, is it also a question of reaching out to the public?We are returning, it is true, to pre-pandemic habits, with a multitude of appointments around shows, most often free. Masterclasses, meetings, debates, after dances, small snacks in the hall. This place is alive! With Les Escapades, we are also spreading to eleven towns with seven different shows. We will finally go to our partners, the cultural café le Pic vert, to the museum, to the Mesa, to the cinema or Pingpong le Toit.
In Millau, the Maison du Peuple theater launches its 2022-2023 season