Un pas de côté: shared confidences and possible detours with Isabelle Carré and Bernard Campan

Anne Giafferi returns to the stage with Un pas de côté, an intimate, contemporary comedy starring Isabelle Carré and Bernard Campan, accompanied by Hélène Babu and Stanislas Stanic. In this new play , the author and director continues her exploration of human relationships, following on from the success of La Dégustation, this time staging a series of seemingly innocuous encounters with profound resonance.

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It all begins in spring, on a park bench. Catherine and Vincent, both married, meet one day for lunch in the same place. This coincidence gives rise to an informal, regular and seemingly simple rendezvous: a breath of fresh air in their respective daily lives. One is trying to escape the melancholy of a depressive companion, the other is trying to come to terms with the idea of growing old. Little by little, their exchanges become more intimate, more charged with ambiguity. The bench becomes the stage for a relationship that questions life choices, attachments and possible forks in the road.

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The show is aimed at an adult audience, sensitive to realistic fiction that recounts the movements of the heart with delicacy and humor. Audiences with a taste for bittersweet comedies, couple's stories and edgy dialogues should also find it appealing. Conversely, this type of theater may be less suited to those looking for lively, collective or more extravagant comedy.

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Anne Giafferi's Un pas de côté is a tender, introspective comedy centered on the power of unexpected encounters. Isabelle Carré and Bernard Campan join forces on stage in a parenthesis that questions the balance of life for two, the taste for risk and the weight of comfort.

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