La Gouineraie
La Gouineraie
La Gouineraie
La Gouineraie
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Creation 2025 On tour this season

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Gouineraie

Photo credits: Marikel Lahana, Pietro Bertora

Rébecca Chaillon, a dyke from the city, and Sandra Calderan, a country lesbian, are a couple on- and off-stage. In this joyful, intimate performance, they attempt to deconstruct, dissect, and analyse what it means to ‘form a family’.

Together, they invite the audience into their home-in-the-making. While Sandra makes frantic attempts to build as many little homes as possible from scrap wood, city girl Rébecca comes to give the countryside a chance. Surrounded by building materials, wrestling with wallpaper or objects from their daily lives, they think about what each person's position could be within their new home and family.

In a cheerful, intimate performance, we witness their different attempts to recreate the perfect family, between different moments of celebration, loneliness, fantasies, failure... One by one, they ask each other questions about inherited family, invented family, chosen family.

Without really offering solutions, but by encouraging the audience to join in the investigation. What are the ways of forming a family when one is White, lives with her ex, their children, and her ex's new family, while the other is Black, urban, and spends more time in the theatres of France and Navarra than in her own flat?

Drawing inspiration from our TV-series culture, they find pleasure in remixing traditional, patriarchal, White, hetero 'family models'. With mischief, they revisit the Catholic iconography of the holy family, in a generous scenic mess that reflects their lives. As in a television series that spans several seasons, their reflections can go in a different direction at any time.

Text, Direction Sandra Calderan & Rébecca Chaillon
With Sandra Calderan et Rébecca Chaillon
Stage management Suzanne Péchenart
Dramaturgy, Collaboration in staging Céline Champinot
Scenographic collaboration Camille Riquier
Translation, Subtitling Lisa Wegener

Production, Development Mélanie Charreton / O.u.r.s.a M.I.n.o.r, Malaury Goutoule
Administration and touring Élise Bernard et Amandine Loriol

Production Compagnie Dans le ventre, Compagnie des Hauts Parleurs
Coproduction CDN de Besançon Franche-Comté
With the suport of T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers – CDN ; Villa Valmont - Lormont Nouvelle Aquitaine

The first version of this performance was presented in La Pop, in the frame of (Re)Mix festival.