Backstage, Cie La Main S'Affaire | Festival Le Mans fait son Cirque

A quirky ode to complementarity and friendship that links the spectacular and the intimate, physical performance and the unveiling of the inner self, circus and theatre.

Backstage is an offbeat, empathetic account of the friendship between two artists who have travelled thousands of miles. We meet them in the dressing room an hour before a duo of acrobatic aerialists take to the stage. In this moment of intense preparation, we discover a voluble acrobat and a porter in search of charisma.
The writing oscillates between (extraordinary) warm-up routines and digressions more or less related to the urgency of the approaching show. An immersion in the backstage world and the intimacy of the artists.

A quirky ode to complementarity and friendship, linking the spectacular and the intimate, physical performance and the unveiling of the inner self, circus and theatre.

A show from the Le Mans fait son Cirque 2026 festival