Description

Musical show. Avignon Off 2024 creation. A duo that unites the worlds of Brel and Barbara in songs, words and images, like a final encounter between these two beings "fallen from the same star" (Marie Chaix).<br><br> The close and mysterious relationship between Brel and Barbara in life, their friendship, extends into their respective works, placed here in parallel, in dialogue: their quest for the absolute, their vision of the world nourished both by the wounds of childhood and by their "sacred taste for life"!<br> Inevitably, it speaks to us of love!<br><br> Martine Bousquet and Hervé Tirefort, who were highly acclaimed for their 2022 creation in Avignon "Barbara, mes Hommes", continue here their sensitive and always very well-documented research around Barbara.<br><br> Brel and Barbara met in the early 1950s in Brussels when they were not yet famous. It was love at first sight, a friendship that would last a lifetime.<br> Brel said "Barbara is like a brother to me...she's a bit crazy, but it's a nice kind of crazy!": he even encouraged her to write her own songs when she was a performer (notably of Brel and Brassens) at the Cabaret de l'Écluse in Paris in the early 1960s.<br><br> "Quand on n'a que l'amour" is a sung and theatrical show, built from this complicity, images from the film "Franz*" and songs whose themes echo, intersect, and mingle.<br> The backdrop includes war, childhood, foolishness, travel, the quest for the absolute, but also humor and love, of course!<br><br> Nothing is ever lukewarm, never banal: without passion, no life is possible, one must burn oneself out and always journey towards an absolute, towards one's truth.<br><br> Cheating is not an option!