Nostalgia for comfort

Nostalgie du réconfort is based on interviews with 32 members of the working-class family of Matthieu Dandreau, author and director of this play that explores the themes of belonging, transmission and social emancipation. It's a one-man show in which Grégory Fernandes plays all the members of this dysfunctional but loving family, as well as the icons of youth and the avatars of the hero, whose personal memories are imbued with popular culture, class tensions and taboos, in a universe that's offbeat, poetic, joyful, festive and heavily marked by the presence of television.

Cast and production
text, direction Matthieu Dandreau
with Grégory Fernandes
lighting Iannis Japiot
video Thomas Harel
set design Nina Bonnin

production ES3-THEATRE
co-production Théâtre de Gascogne (Mont-de-marsan), L'Union - CDN de Limoges, Châteauvallon-Liberté - scène nationale de Toulon, Printemps des comédiens (Montpellier) via the Warm up program
support from the Landes department via the Culture en herbe program / La Maison des métallos (75)

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