Le coucou(2023)

Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation—on Chuck's life.

Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto in French by Jules Barbier (1825-1901), based on a work that Barbier himself and Michel Carré (1821-1872) had written based on stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). Approximate duration: 2 h 45 min Recommended for those over 15 years old. The young poet Hoffmann, accompanied by Nicklausse, his alter ego and confidant, is in a tavern next to the theatre where Mozart's Don Giovanni is being performed. During the opera's intermission, some diners arrive at the bar who, upon seeing the poet, encourage him to sing and tell them the story of his famous love affairs. Hoffmann finally gives in and shares with them the stories of Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta. They, absorbed in the poet's stories, remain in the tavern, forgetting about the opera performance.

Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?

An original rewriting by the Vetrano-Randini company of two one-act plays by Pirandello, ‘Sgombero’ and ‘L'uomo dal fiore in bocca’, whose threads are intertwined with surreal dialogues and lightning-fast quotes drawn from the repertoire of Totò and Vicé, fantastic and poetic characters from Franco Scaldati's theater. - Luigi Pirandello: L‘uomo dal fiore in bocca – Sgombero – Colloqui coi personaggi - Franco Scaldati: Totò e Vicé

Props, the stage man, and his assistant at the Orpheum Theater, Plunkville divide their time equally between drinking and attention to duty. Trouble starts when the new acts arrive. The Wiggle sisters, a Hawaiian act, demand the star dressing room but Props turns them down, but relents when Babe, the strong man, and his beautiful wife, Ethel Burton because he is smitten. Once the show begins Props is forever getting in the way of the performers and his bibulous assistant has an unfortunate propensity for dropping the curtain at the wrong moments. Things only get crazier from there.

The 2024 Senior BA students would like to invite you to a Playdate!! Bring your blankets, stuffed animals, and pillows as we celebrate the path that got us to where we are!

An artist is asked to write by a con artist agent and an improvised historian, a 'performance' to remember Giovanni Battista Casti three hundred years after his birth. A situation and homage that results in a satirical transposition of today.