Romancero Queer at La Colline: a collective fresco of rage, laughter and identity at the theater

Virginie Despentes continues her stage exploration of the intimate and the political with Romancero Queer, a new creation presented at the Théâtre de la Colline from May 20 to June 22, 2025. After WOKE in 2024, the author and director reunites with part of her artistic team to offer a choral work, traversed by the anger, wounds and impulses of a queer generation confronted with a tense era.

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On stage, the cast would include Sasha Andres, Amir Baylly, Mata Gabin, Soraya Garlenq, Mascare, Soa de Muse, Clara Ponsot, and Casey alternating with Naelle Dariya. This collective of performers would carry a protean word, made up of fragments of stories, poetic flashes, tales of resistance and flashes of lucidity. One of the show's common threads would be the ambivalence of affects - between political rage and the need for tenderness, between lucidity and bursts of life-saving laughter.

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Romancero Queer would not tell a story in the classical sense, but would offer a series of tableaux to be seen and heard, carried by Despentes ' text, which would blend crudity, humor, social lucidity and tenderness. The show would appeal to audiences sensitive to contemporary writing, LGBTQIA+ issues and raw, frontal aesthetics. Audiences with a penchant for structured narratives or more classical theatrical forms may find this fragmentary creation, based on polyphony, raw emotion and direct address, disconcerting.

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Virginie Despentes would thus continue her work of accompanying the margins, in a collective and political perspective. More than a manifesto, Romancero Queer seeks to be a space for sharing, where listening, anger, laughter and vulnerability coexist without hierarchy.

This article is based on information available at the time of writing. The show has not been seen by the editorial staff.

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