Cocorico

But Thibaud is happy, or so it seems, or at least he makes us happy for an hour and a half - and that is priceless

- Borja Hermoso, Elpais.com

Cocorico is a show of involvement, music and humour - especially humour - in a production in which gestures say much more than words.

The actor Patrice Thibaud, who also wrote and co-directed the work, together with Michèle Guigon and British director Susy Firth, goes back to his roots - to mime and the universal language of gesture - while polishing up his sense of the absurd for telling stories, great and small. He sets a frenetic pace, turning day-to-day activities into comic snapshots, although Cocorico is not just a "hugely amusing" show as one critic described it at its premiere. It is also an artistic high point for Patrice Thibaud and musician, Philippe Leygnac, a couple who have been called by some the "French Laurel and Hardy". Discovered by Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff in their popular Les Étourdis show, Thibaud and Leygnac follow the course set by great classic artists such as Keaton, Tati, Funès and Chaplin in a work full of fast-moving fantasy and humour. Dedicated to those who are still children but, above all, to those who stopped being so some time ago...

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