Red curtain and limelight… All summer long, the winter room of Le Prolé bar is transformed into a performance hall. As of this week, William Vidal, Kikou and Michèle Lého have settled on site to resume a collaboration that began 18 years ago around the texts of William, a follower of poetry that comes out of libraries, takes to the streets, goes to drink aperitif and slum in the bistros.
18 years ago, they shared the stage around his words, touring bars and neighborhood committees. Since then, they have often found themselves off stage and when Gyslain Lucien created this new cycle of “Prolé en théâtre”, with the complicity of Albin Fontalba for the management, he called on them for a revival. Here is some poetry “wacky, crispy, with emotion”texts born at the time of the poetry cafés animated by William, old things, small novelties and always this generous and popular spirit.
With Kikou, actor, musician, storyteller and Michèle Lého, singer and actress, the friends mix text and music to stage stories full of humor and sometimes provocative. The word circulates between the three artists, with a smiling complicity. It’s about drunken evenings, sex, friendship, drunkenness, prostitutes, those who dream of another life, greedy or unhappy loves, it plays with words, it dusts off heritage in a mixture of folk guitar and realistic banter. And it makes you thirsty!