If you keep going like this...

Show & Culture

White face, white name, pumped-up chest from the gym: Rémi Faure has everything to fit into the norm. Except his name is also El Bekkari, he is half Moroccan, bisexual, and a transplant from a working-class neighborhood in Marseille who found himself in bourgeois theater. For a long time, he played the role of the straight, white, cis man he seemed to be. Until one morning, in the shower, a voice emerged: “If you keep going like this, you’ll die.” Not the neighbor, not God, not the latest Marc Lavoine song: his own conscience, holding up the mirror of a life he hadn’t chosen. From this sentence, he creates a one-man show at the crossroads of stand-up, theater, and poetry. A clumsy technician, his mother, a bodybuilder, a Harvard sociologist, Hamlet: he summons his doubles and fails to embody them. Laughter opens the confession; the confession slips into silence, then starts again with a joke. In the cracks of the performance, the fragility of every identity is revealed. Beneath the self-deprecating humor, a reading inspired by the thinking of feminist bell hooks: how raising boys creates men who betray themselves. An uncompromising, tender, and furious comedy that asks everyone the same question: what do we do with our impostures?