Laurent Gerra se met à table

Laurent Gerra sets the table at the Liberté in Rennes on February 10, 2027. The comedian and mimic serves up a new "service" in which the news is savored live, and politicians, singers and figures from television and film are sketched with precision. Voices, faces and tics resurface in turn: he borrows intonations, twists refrains, slips in a dry retort, then segues into a sketch that turns into a song parody. A lively, rhythmic revue, the show roasts everyone without exception and plays with the conventions of a meal to better season the topics that get people talking.

Rooted in the cabaret tradition and a genuine taste for pastiche, Gerra puts his characters back on the grill and surveys the hot issues of the moment. Between pinpoint-precise imitations, song subversions and short-form pieces, he assembles a stage mechanism that alternates quips and refrains. His gallery of portraits presents as many voices as eras, with that very recognizable way of twisting current events to tell them anew. An evening tailored for those who like to see the times reflected—biting and clear-eyed—in a music-hall mirror.