Immoral Recipes (2023-2025)

Sound drama for voice and live electronics

Literature, especially poetry, is full of texts on the pleasures of food, the voluptuousness of wine, the ambiguity of the art of seduction and its relationship to good food. There are numerous French expressions and synonyms: devouring, swallowing, nibbling, ingesting, gorging, eating, biting, lunching or dining, tasting, slurping, pecking, gulping, eating with relish. Gourmets are everywhere!
The act of sitting down at the table produces a multitude of innuendos in our chidish imaginations. Together Brigitte Cirla and Sébastien Béranger have created a musical show on this ambiguous theme, the theme suggested by the sensual, poetic and nourishing pleasures of the mouth.

A quasi-radio show performed and transformed in real time in front of the public

Immoral Recipes is based on the book of the same name by Manuel Vásquez Montalbán. In his preface, the author states that “Each of these recipes is a bid for an alternative morality, a hedonistic morality that is within the reach of the disciples of instant gratification, consisting as it does in the use and perhaps even the abuse of basic knowledge: knowing how to cook, how to eat, attempting to learn to love…”.
The duo of Brigitte Cirla and Sébastien Béranger base their writing on a joyful premise.

Date(s)

2025: 8/05 – 9 au 13/06 – 22/07 – 7/08 – 27/08 – 23 & 26/09 – 9,10,12/10 – 6/12

Lasalles (30460), Beograd (Serbia), Lecce (Italy), Stendis – Rinkobing (Denmark), Francfort (Germany), Villeneuve Loubet (06), Rodez (12), Cahors, Grateloup, Wuppertal (Germany) (47), Francillon sur Roubion (26400)

2024: 19, 21/01 – 23/02 – 23/05 – 17/11

Marseille: Pic Télémaque – Astronef – Festival: oh ma parole! Mairie 6/8 – Maison du Chant

2024: 15/2 – 16/02 – 05/04 – 06/04 -18/05

France: Montrabé: Gare aux artistes (31850) – Toulouse: La Palette des Possibles (31000) – Albi (81000): Le Frigo – Grateloup (47400) -Saint Nazaire (44600) : Festival de l’eau

2024: 19/07 – 29/07 – 12/09

France: Pigna (20220): Festivoce – Danemark: Transit Festival (Stendis)- Espagne: Festival tradition transmisssion (Piedralaves)

2023: 17/11

Sortie de résidence Chapelle Venel, Aix en Provence

Immoral recipies

Immoral recipies

Performances

• Eté et autome 23 @ Ecriture/conception, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
• 17/11/2023 @ La Maison des écritures contemporaines (MéCA), chapelle Venel, Aix-en-Provence
• 19/01/24 @ PIC Télémaque, Marseille (scolaire)
• 21/01/24 @ PIC Télémaque, Marseille
• 15/02/24 @ Gare aux artistes, Monrabé (31)
• 16/02/24 @ La Palette des Possibles, Toulouse (31)
• 23/02/24 @ L’Astronef, Marseille
• 05/04/24 @ Le Frigo, Albi
• 06/04/24 @ La Ferme du Temple, Grateloup
• 18/05/24 @ Festival de l’Eau – Athénor – CNCM, Saint-Nazaire
• 23/05/24 @ Festival Oh ma Parole! -Mairie 6-8 – Marseille
• 19/07/24 @ Festival Festivoce, Pigna
• 29/07/24 @ Transit Next Forum Festival, Vinderup, Danemark
• 12/09/24 @ Festival Transmission, Transgresssion, Tradition, Piedralaves, Espagne
• 17/11/24 @ Festival De Vive Voix, Marseille
• 08/05/25 @Lasalles (30460)
• 13/06/25 @Festival Belgrade, Serbie
• 22/07/25 @Lecce, Koreja Teatro (Italie)
• 07/08/25 @ Transit Next Forum Festival, Vinderup, Danemark
• 27/08/25 @ UR-NAT International Performing Arts Festival, Ringkøbing, Danemark
• 23/09/25 @Francfort (Allemagne)
• 26/09/25 @ Médiathèque Jean d’Ormesson, Villeneuve Loubet
• 09/10/25 @ La Menuiserie, Rodez
• 10/10/25 @ L’Agrithéâtre, Francoulès, MAs de Jaillac (46090)
• 12/10/25 @ Ferme du Temple, Grateloup Saint Gayrand, (47112)
• 06/12/25 @ Maison Mège, Francillon sur Roubion, (26400)
• décembre: @Wuppertal (Allemagne)

Partners & Producers

Production :

delegated production : Diƒƒƒusion
coproduction : Voix Polyphoniques

Supports:

Pôle instrumental contemporain – PIC Télémaque
La Gare aux Artistes, Montrabé
Le Frigo, Albi
Fondation Camargo, Cassis
L’Astronef, l’extra-théâtre, Marseille
La Maison des écritures contemporaines (MéCA), Aix-en-Provence (MéCA)

with the support of Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, de la Région Sud – Carte blanche aux artistes et de la Maison de la musique contemporaine