Odile Grosset-Grange directs CARTOON or don’t try it at home! by Mike Kenny

You might think the Normal family is a normal family. Norma and Norman Normal live on Normal Street in Normal-Ville, work normally, read the newspaper, take care of their 2.4 children, their dog and their goldfish… except that they are cartoons! They look normal, but they never get old, feel pain, die…every morning a new episode starts and it all starts over.

All of this was normal, until the day Baby and Jimmy, the last two children in the family, drink one of the potions brought back by Norma, their mother, a great scientist. Baby becomes invisible and Jimmy begins to change: he grows up, he suffers, he is… human! Drawn into a series of adventures, each one more improbable than the next, and shaken up by the arrival of Craig – the neighborhood bully – in Jimmy’s life, the Normal family will have to choose: stay cartoons, or agree to live, feel and die in the end.

With this piece, Mike Kenny reaches the height of his art: with sharp precision, to a furious rhythm, linking with the humor that we know him the most incredible situations, he questions us about normality but above all about our desire to live. At the service of the text: magic, sounds, lights, puppets, video… a moving and whirling show for everyone from 7 years old!

CARTOON or don’t try this at home!
texte Mike Kenny
directed by Odile Grosset-Grange

With
Francois Charlie,
Julien Cigana,
Antonin Dufeutrelle,
Delphine Lamand,
Pierre Lefebvre-Adrien,
Pauline Vaubaillon

Staging Assistant:
Carles Romero-Vidal

General management and lights:
Erwan Tassel

Lighting intern:
Tom Bouchardon

Scenography:
Stephan Zimmerli assisted by Irène Vignaud

Drawings:
Stephan Zimmerli

Accessories :
Irene Vignaud

Puppet advice:
Brice Berthoud

Puppet making:
Caroline Dubuisson

Machinery and magic design:
Vincent Wuthrich

Production / distribution management:
Caroline Sazerat-Richard

Production managers:
Mathilde Göhler, Emilienne Gui fan

Trainee – assistant
production :
Louise Will

Diffusion :
Caroline Namer
Elektron Libre
Olivier Witness

Musical creation and sound:
Vincent Hulot

Costumes :
Séverine Thiebault assisted by Pia Blanchon

Wig creation:
Noï Karunayadhaj

Tray / video:
Emmanuel Larue

Plateau :
Denarius House

Set construction and machinery:
Jipanco

Produced by: La Compagnie de Louise

Co-production: La Coupe d’Or in Rochefort; La Coursive – SN of La Rochelle; The Theater of Angoulême – SN of Angoulême; OARA (Artistic Office of the New Aquitaine Region); The Odyssey – Theater of Périgueux; The Théâtre de Gascogne – Scenes from Mont de Marsan; The Buisson Farm – SN de Noisiel; In progress…
Co-productions – Support fund: support fund for the production of Please, Thouars Conventional Stage / les 3T, Châtellerault Conventional Scene / Territory Scenes, Bocage Bressuirais Conventional Scene; New Aquitaine Regional Young Audience Platform; In progress…
Reception and support in residence: Le Théâtre d’Angoulême – National Stage; La Ferme du Buisson – National Stage; The OARA (Artistic Office of the New-Aquitaine Region) within the framework of the Résidence Méca; The Gold Cup – Rochefort Theater; The Theater of Sartrouville and Yvelines – CDN.
With the additional support of the Direction Générale de la Création Artistique.
La Compagnie de Louise is supported and financed for its project by the City of La Rochelle, the Department of Charente-Maritime, the New Aquitaine Region.
The Compagnie de Louise is approved by the DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine – Poitiers site.

Mike Kenny’s CARTOON text is represented in France by Séverine Magois in agreement with Alan Brodie RepresentationLondon (www.alanbrodie.com).

Creation
23 > 25 February 2023
Gold Cup Theater – Rochefort (17)

2023 tour
2 > 4 mars
Angoulême Theater – National Stage
as part of the Festival La Tête dans les Nuages ​​(16)

March 10 and 11
L’Azimut – Châtenay-Malabry (92)

March 21 and 22
The Comedy of Valencia (16)

4 > 6 avril
La Coursive – National Stage of La Rochelle (17)

14 > 16 avril
La Ferme du Buisson – National scene of Noisiel (77)

4 and 5 never
Gallia Cinema – Theater of Saintes (17)

May 26
Gascony Theater – Mont-de-Marsan (40)