Ha ha ha

After several pieces creating the setting for her surreal universe, navigating between poetry and rock’n’roll, Eugénie Rebetez is no longer content with just making people (the audience) laugh. Here she explores what laughter is. What if laughter were first and foremost communication, she wonders? If it were a language before being a mechanism, if forms of laughter were about expressing the wide range of emotions that inhabit the laughing person in a game of hide and seek packed with contradictions. Alone on stage, the actor, dancer and producer of sounds Tarek Halaby discovers the emotions that inhabit him one by one, and that materialise in coloured objects to become genuine partners in the game. Immersed in situations that transform him each time, the character of Ha ha ha escapes a prosaic, imperfect, disconcerting and frustrating world, imagining it all differently, lighter, more unexpected, but also more wonderful. A bridge between real life and the imagination, laughter is like a door opening onto a future, a door the audience, both big and small, can pass through.