Les Franciscaines en scène – L’OuLiPo : C’est un métier d’homme

Two actors, one constraint: perform a succession of self-portraits written in a single form. These texts, from the OuLiPo collective founded in the 1960s by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, all follow the structure of Paul Fournel?s L?Autoportrait du descendeur. "My job is to get from the top of the mountain to the bottom. To get down as quickly as possible. It's a man's job In a cheerful jumble of bric-a-brac, the two funny zebras boast of a thousand qualities, in turn ski champion or psychoanalyst, drinker or "show terminator", but always on the same model declined twenty times: Mon métier consiste à... With pride and ridicule, they line up as many burlesque self-portraits of "man?s jobs", and stumble from the pedestal of their megalomania.

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