Pallaksch pallaksch! Marie-José Malis invents a theater-laboratory at the Petit Odéon

Conceived as a cycle of performances, Pallakschpallaksch! follows in the footsteps of theater studios, reinvesting the original vocation of the Petit Odéon: a place for formal experimentation and dramaturgical exploration. Surrounded by five performers - Pascal Batigne, Juan Crespillo, Sylvia Etcheto, Olivier Horeau and Isabel Oed - Marie-José Malis draws inspiration from singular literary texts: D. H. Lawrence's The Ladybird, Arthur Schnitzler's Pierrette's Veil and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Lettres du Voyageur à son Retour.

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The title of the show is taken from a word invented by the German poet Hölderlin, reclusive in his Tübingen tower. Pallaksch, sometimes yes, sometimes no, becomes the password for a theater in search of its own language. This one-hour creation is part of a literary, scenic and philosophical research movement.

The show will appeal to audiences with a curiosity for experimental forms, modernist literature and laboratory theater. On the other hand, those who prefer constructed narratives or classical formats may find this fragmentary, open-ended proposition disconcerting.

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Pallaksch pallaksch! is to be discovered in the intimacy of the Petit Odéon, for a plunge into a theater of essays, breath and matter.

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