Norman is a fairly run-of-the-mill 7-year-old boy, but he likes to wear dresses. In the garden, the more he whirls, the more it flies, the more owl it is. One day, he receives the authorization to go to school in a robe… School trips will then no longer be quite ordinary and will turn into an abyssal descent in we do not know what and that is why we say a descent into hell, because in the hell box you can put everything.
Through the anecdote of clothing, NORMAN it's like normal, except for one letter joyfully questions the relationship to the norm, the acceptance of difference and the cultural codes of gender. Never didactic, even less moralising, the show favours humour, dance, wordplay and narration.
A colourful ode to the freedom to be who you are.
NORMAN it's normal, except for one letter is a creation for children and the whole family, according to the show PINK BOYS & OLD LADIES, rewritten by Marie Henry and directed by Clément Thirion.
Direction and choreography Clément Thirion
Writing and dramaturgy Marie Henry
Interpretation Antoine Cogniaux , Deborah Marchal, Quentin Chaveriat alternating with Clément Thirion
Role creation of Norman Lylybeth Merle
Scenography and costumes Katrijn Baeten and Saskia Louwaard
Light creation Gaspar Schelck
Sound creation Thomas Turine
Classical dance Maria Clara Villa Lobos
Technical direction Gaspar Schelck
Technical support (alternating) Gildas Celeste / Grégoire Larrouy / Chams Madec / Rodolphe Maquet / Maxime Meulemans / Fred Postiau / Loïc Vanden Bemden / Gaspar Schelck
Photos Hichem Dahes et Anoek Luyten
Photos Anoek Luyten and Hichem Dahes
Development, communication and distribution BLOOM Project
Production kosmocompany
Co-production Mars - Mons arts de la scène, Pierre de Lune, Brussels, Charleroi Danse, La Coop asbl
With the help of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation - Theater Department and WBTD With the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International, La Montagne Magique, Shelterprod, Taxshelter.be, ING, Tax-Shelter of the Belgian federal government
The show NORMAN c'est comme normal, à une lettre près is available in two versions : Original version and Light version.
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This show was created in November 2021 at Mars - Mons arts de la scène.
Clément Thirion is a partner artist of Théâtre Varia.