The Nine Lives of the Pussycat

7 Rue de Lucé, 37000 Tours, France

This creation, a queer and campy journey that pays homage to excess and kitsch, fits beautifully into this artistic current. The Nine Lives of the Pussycat tells the itinerary of a heroine shaped by pop images and drag culture: from feline spies to super-women, through glamorous icons. In this three-part, nine-scene show, director Youssouf Abi-ayad mixes the codes of the drag-queen with his theatrical universe (love of clichés, the obsolete, the grotesque…). A graduate of the National Theatre of Strasbourg, he draws inspiration from a spectrum that…