A set of the inside of a house, a person leans out the windo, while another sides in a swimming costume on top of the roof
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Past Event
Theatre

Fishbowl

Le Fils du Grand Réseau (France)
3 performances between Thu 23 - Sat 25 May 2024
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Laugh-out-loud silent comedy from an award-winning French company

Written and directed by Pierre Guillois

Co-written by Agathe L’Huillier and Olivier Martin-Salvan

Once upon a time, in three small attic apartments in Paris, a big man, a tall thin man and a curvaceous blonde are neighbours. This would be a romantic story if it wasn’t for the fact that these three oddballs have a special talent for messing things up. Messing everything up. 

Winner of the Molière Award for Best Comedy, Fishbowl follows the hilarious misadventures of three eccentric and lovable anti-heroes separated only by paper-thin walls.

Fishbowl is a masterful piece of physical comedy and technical wizardry as objects fly around, characters fall flat on their faces and a series of fires, leaks and storms compete to baffle the hapless inhabitants and reduce the stage to chaos.

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‘This totally irresistible burlesque melodrama will make you laugh out loud. The belly laughs just keep on coming. Laughter, laughter, and more laughter!’
Le Figaro
‘The funniest show in Europe’
FringeReview
'Pierre Guillois is an author who is well worth discovering. […] His plays are pure comic explosions'
Télérama Sortir
A blonde woman puts hair rollers in the big mans hair with the tall thin man, in a neck brace, watching concerned
A blonde woman in a red glittery dress, a big man in a suit and a tall thin man with a neck brace dance together in a row with their arm in the air
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A blonde woman puts hair rollers in the big mans hair with the tall thin man, in a neck brace, watching concerned
A blonde woman in a red glittery dress, a big man in a suit and a tall thin man with a neck brace dance together in a row with their arm in the air
Co-producers: Le Quartz, Scène nationale de Brest; Le Théâtre de L’Union, Limoges; Centre Dramatique National du Limousin; Le Théâtre de la Croix Rousse, Lyon. Funded by DRAC – Bretagne
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