Comment avouer son amour quand on ne sait pas le mot pour le dire ?

"How do you live your sexuality when you grow up in an environment where the term homosexual doesn't even exist in your mind?

Less, Manu and Nico have decided to reappropriate the insult and turn it into a source of pride. They question their feelings and their place in society around this question: How do we define ourselves in this love outside the norm? Drawing on personal experience, testimonies and research, this immersive play is a celebration of all the different ways of loving.

There's Nico, the little guy from the provinces who falls in love with his mates from high school and also with those from after high school. He's a die-hard Cyril Collard fan, and knows all the lines from Nuits Fauves by heart. He wears khaki bombers, jeans and white T-shirts. He's a big fan of Smalltown Boy.

There's Manu, the butch lesbian, she's a hothead, she loves Virginie Despentes, she's read King Kong Théorie 1,000 times. She doesn't want to be a guy, she doesn't like guys, she refuses oppression. She wears a navy bomber, dresses in slim jeans and often wears white men's shirts. She's a big fan of Smalltown Boy.

And then there's Less, the one who may have found love in the arms of women more mature than her, more self-confident than her, she's a lolita just looking for a little tenderness. She's had a hard time with guys, because she got bored so she let them have their way, but not any more. She would have loved to be called Thelma, like in the film. She wears a Bordeaux bomber, dresses in a denim skirt and often wears white tank tops. She's a big fan of Smalltown Boy.

They have that in common. That question. Who do I love? How do I define myself in this love? How do I define myself outside the norm? Am I a monster?

[114 Cie]
Directed by DENICO
Designer, author Nicolas Petisoff
With Leslie Bernard, Emmanuelle Hiron and Nicolas Petisoff
With the participation of Hedda Gauchard, Raphaël Mathieu, Céline Malard-Béquin and the voice-over of Béatrice Dalle

Running time 1:30, aged 15 and up
As part of the Gender in Question forum

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