They were florists, lifeguards, pet shop managers, etc… Four retirees have been selected at random to participate in Antoine Delonguy’s famous radio show, La Grande Tablée. For one evening, live and in public, they will form a surprising committee of experts invited to comment on the shows they have discovered during the festival. The concept of the show is to hear from specialists in nothing at all. These completely uninitiated observers will discuss what they have seen, perceived or tried to understand. Their discussions, illustrated by a few approximate choreographic fragments, are a mix of benevolent wisdom, distressing triviality, disarming platitudes and high-flying verbal jabs that should help festival-goers better appreciate the mysteries of contemporary artistic creation.

Based on the pitch of this small-scale open-air production, created in Niort during the Panique au Dancing festival, OpUS will be able to unleash its sense of fantasy and absurdity, and deliver a fierce critique and self-criticism of the world of festivals and the performing arts. In short, it is a new absurd, funny and offbeat, inventive and light-hearted show in the grand tradition of OpUS, which delights us every time with their skill and incessant blurring of the lines between fiction and reality.