A Comic Recital: I Ate My Fork

Allée des Près, Salle des Fêtes

It seems to start like a totally serious recital but very quickly the singer interrupts, opens up, confesses. For this singer is above all a man of his time, a man whose hilariously entertaining love life we will follow as we dive into the repertoire of French humorous songs, from the Roaring Twenties to the Left Bank cabarets of the post-war era. His pianist, Christophe Manien, accompanies him and offers his silent repartees. This recital, a genuine music-hall show that Gilles Bugeaud, with his dry humor, has designed around songs composed by the…