With Chaos, Courroux and Cataclysme, actress Marie-Laure Baudain lends her singular presence to a creation where laughter mingles with pain. Directed by Paola Rizza, this clown performance explores the sensitive zones of inner crisis and collective chaos, between humor, poetry and excess. The show will be presented in autumn at the Théâtre de l'Épée de Bois, Cartoucherie de Paris.
Chaos, Courroux et Cataclysme will run at the Théâtre de l'Épée de Bois from October 2 to 26, 2025 in Paris(12th arrondissement).
Synopsis: In this show, Pauline takes her clownish, naive, indiscreet and irreverent look into the uncharted territories of suffering. She provokes crisis, observes it, and abandons herself to it with jubilation. Free, unpredictable and sensual, she plays according to her impulses, true to her motto: farce, debacle and marasmus... So be it!
Marie-Laure Baudain plays Pauline, a clownish figure both candid and provocative. With her physicality and sense of the absurd, she questions the contradictions of existence and the transformative power of disorder. Paola Rizza 's organic staging, akin to dance and physical theater, brings out the beauty of extreme emotions.
The lighting, designed by Xavier Lescat and directed by Grégory Salles, accompanies this sensitive journey, accentuating the contrasts between light and dark, laughter and tragedy. The visual universe reinforces the show's poetic tension, between intimate chaos and self-reinvention.
Chaos, Courroux et Cataclysme follows in the tradition of contemporary clown theater, where laughter becomes a means of exploring suffering. At times, the show evokes the research of companies such as Théâtre du Mouvement, or the approaches of Jos Houben and Claire Heggen, where the body is the bearer of meaning and emotion.
The show is aimed primarily at adult audiences interested in physical theater, clowning andradical stage experiments. It will also appeal to fans of poetic shows and contemporary performances open to human fragility and intense emotions.
A clown solo by Marie-Laure Baudain, directed by Paola Rizza, with lighting by Xavier Lescat and stage management by Grégory Salles. Presented at the Théâtre de l'Épée de Bois (Cartoucherie - Paris 12e) in October 2025, this show offers a joyfully desperate plunge into the twists and turns of the crisis, between farce and raw emotion.
With its corrosive humor and total freedom, Chaos, Courroux et Cataclysme invites us to laugh at disorder and celebrate the fragility of life.
This article is based on information available online, as we have not yet attended the show mentioned.
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Dates and Opening Time
From October 9, 2025 to October 26, 2025
Location
Cartoucherie - Théâtre de l'Epée de Bois
Route du Champ de Manoeuvre
75012 Paris 12
Route planner
Access
Château de Vincennes metro station
Official website
www.etvousenvivez.com
One woman shows to discover in Paris
