A wild evening at Le Tabou with Boris Vian.
A tribute to the fast-paced and multi-faceted genius of the French artist whose artistic life began after World War II and ended in the late 50s with his premature death at the age of 39 (during the screening of "his" movie ...).
What’s Le Tabou? It’s a nightclub in Paris, where Boris Vian played jazz music, created songs, cabaret shows, and poetry. It’s the sacred place for French existentialists ... with a somewhat "snob" atmosphere, as Boris Vian and his famous song.
Who was Boris Vian? An engineer, a writer, a lyricist, a poet, a jazz trumpet player, a translator, a radio presenter, a screenwriter, and playwright. He was an artist who, in the preface of his book, wrote: "There are only two things that matter: love, in all its forms, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans and Duke Ellington. Everything else got to go, because everything else is ugly...".
His surrealist and existentialist drive, at times cynical while at others a pure cry of complaint against a degenerate society devoid of feelings; all combined with an explosive mix of noir, comedy, eros and cruelty, is the background to our story for voices and music.
"Because all this is still nothing. Boris Vian gets ready to become Boris Vian"
Raymond Queneau
Venue
Il Brancaccino - Via Mecenate, 2 – Rome
Time
9.00 pm
Ticket Office Info
06.80687231