The Nîmes ATP takes culture and theater off the beaten track

Reaching out to all audiences has been the mission of the ATP for over 60 years. Next season this will again involve shows scattered far from the performance halls, in neighborhood committees, at the Spot, at La Placette or in the villages… It also involves a variety of proposals, between small forms, song or documentary theater.

At university, in neighborhood committees or villages

The season will start at Vauban University with A Judge. “A very lively show by Fabio Alessandrini, produced from interviews with French and Italian magistrates”according to Martine Cohen-Gonsaud, of the ATP, who questions justice. Presented in parallel with the law night, the association hopes to attract a student audience, just as it wishes to attract high school students with 1978, confidences gesticulées circus artists from the Goldoni Family. Between theater, conference and acrobatics, Hugues Amsler dissects the mechanisms of the liberal economy.

In order to address new audiences, the ATP also welcomes Doctor Love’s Cabaret by Yves Cusset, a philosophical conference around love which ends in garter belt performed in Nîmes, Rodilhan and Saint-Dionisy or an adaptation of Little Prince by Bruno Paternot, in private homes, at David Bompas’ apartment or at the association house. The season will end on the Placette with wire rope runner Sébastien Le Guen. For […]parenthesis point parenthesisthe artist settles down for three days with his caravan, draws, speaks with people before restoring the fruit of his meetings.

Also discover, Emma Picardadaptation of a text by Mathieu Belezi by Cie Okeanos, presented in partnership with Télémac. The play features a young widow in 1860 who moves to Algeria where she will try to survive by cultivating a piece of desert and watching her children die. “It’s a completely forgotten period of history, we come away paralyzed by emotion”according to Martine Cohen-Gonsaud. Another show evoking a little-known page of history, NénèneÂ: story out from under the carpet 2by Hannaë Grouard Boullé, by the Ambuscade collective evokes the fate of the nannies of Reunion and Morvan to question the relationship between the female body and power.

Finally the pleasure will be sparkling with Goodbye and thank you! After 40 years of diversions in the service of the music hall, the group Chanson Plus Bifluorée is embarking on a farewell tour which could not fail to pass through Nîmes!