When the opening night of a new play goes horribly awry, the actors are forced to frantically improvise the plot onstage. Clashing egos, tested friendships and a series of disastrous misunderstandings combine to create the most offensive, shocking and accidental piece of theater ever to debut in front of a live audience.
Roger BainbridgeRussell WrightConor BradburConor
Kristian BruunAlec Hess
Gwenlyn CumynCaroline / Amina BouaziziCaitlin DriscollMaggie
Peter HigginsonStanley Heath / Bernie MadoffSuzette McCannyStage Manager
Kelly McCormackVanessa Pike
Machin, a zany inventor and self-confessed misanthrope, needs only one thing: absolute silence. Thanks to his inventions, which are as ingenious as they are bizarre, he has always managed to scare away his neighbors. Until the day a pianist, Machine, moves in for the first time in her life... into the apartment next door! Recorded at the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris's 2nd arrondissement.
Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.
One evening, Eric Vence, founder of "Rupture à domicile" (Home Breakup), is hired by Hyppolite to tell his girlfriend that he has decided to leave her. That's when Eric runs into Gaëlle, his ex who left him seven years ago without any explanation. An unusual love triangle then develops: the ex, the woman, and the soon-to-be ex. Recorded at the Palais des Congrès et des Festivals Atlantia in La Baule.
François Pignon, an accountant in a condom factory, learns that he is going to be fired. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, he decides to throw himself out the window. He is stopped in his tracks by his next-door neighbor who suggests an unexpected plan to keep his job: pretend to be a homosexual. Assuming that in this age of political correctness, one does not fire a gay man, he manages to convince Pignon to play along while remaining a discreet and shy little man... What will change is the way others look at him. Pignon will thus benefit from an unusual reintegration by coming out of a closet where he had never entered.
After 18 years in prison, André returns home wearing an electronic ankle bracelet. His return is not greeted with enthusiasm, far from it! His wife can't stand his presence, his mother-in-law is intrusive, and his 20-year-old daughter, whom he didn't see grow up, refuses to call him dad. Recorded at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris's 9th arrondissement.
In 1960, two legendary couples stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand stayed in bungalow 20: they loved each other, they were beautiful, still young, full of life, at the height of their fame. But Marilyn Monroe, staying in the neighboring bungalow, was an irresistible woman whose relationship with writer Arthur Miller was on the rocks. Simone became friends with Marilyn, while Yves filmed with her, trying to resist her seduction. Unfortunately, Arthur left. The lives of four people are shattered. Neither woman will ever truly recover from this affair, and each will be plagued by doubt. Recorded on January 12 and 13, 2024, at the Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris's 8th arrondissement.
Claudine and Valentin were friends and roommates before becoming a real loving couple. The years went by and routine set in. On her side, Claudine is faithful. But Valentin has gotten into the habit of going elsewhere. She wants to leave him. He'd rather they "stay together"
A rustic comedy about a small-town bowling alley entrepreneur who learns that being scammed is not the end of the world.
A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.