Félix Le Braz - Flashback - Génération Vhs - Le Boui Boui Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Félix Le Braz with Flashback: Génération VHS

At Le Boui-Boui, we live for nights when a performer turns our intimate room into a time machine, and Félix Le Braz does exactly that with Flashback: Génération VHS. From the moment the lights go down, he leans into the charm and crackle of the analog era, inviting our audience to relive the thrill of a Friday-night cassette, the tactile joy of a clunky remote, and the universal panic of a tape caught in the VCR. In our close-quarters setting, his quick-fire crowd work lands with extra warmth: he hears every gasp of recognition, every nostalgic laugh, and he riffs on them with mischievous precision. The show’s rhythm feels tailor-made for our stage—tight, playful, and generously interactive—balancing storytelling with punchy callbacks that grow funnier as the set unfolds. Without resorting to easy pastiche, Félix captures the texture of 80s/90s living rooms, mixing physical comedy with sharp observational beats about the lost rituals of recording, fast-forwarding, and waiting. Even the way he resets between bits feels cinematic here: small pauses, a hush, and then another burst of memory that ricochets through the room. It’s a perfect match for Le Boui-Boui’s convivial atmosphere, where the laughs bounce right back to the stage.

Artistic momentum and recent highlights

We host Félix at an exciting moment in his trajectory: he’s refining a voice that marries affectionate nostalgia with a very contemporary sense of timing and structure, and Flashback: Génération VHS is the laboratory where that alchemy happens live. He has been actively shaping new material onstage, and audiences at Le Boui-Boui get to witness that process up close—fresh tags, tighter transitions, and a playful sense of risk that keeps the evening feeling one-of-a-kind. As part of the show’s evolving mosaic, Félix threads in compact, named bits that have become audience favorites, including “Mode Tracking,” a kinetic ode to the mysterious slider we all pretended to understand; “Rembobiner, c’est aimer,” a cheeky portrait of the unspoken etiquette of returning tapes; and “Service Après-Télé,” where late-night infomercials and daytime jingles collide in a cascade of micro-impressions. His recent short-form sketches online echo this momentum—snappy, character-driven slices of VHS-era habits adapted to today’s scroll—while on stage he stretches those premises into fuller, more textured routines that breathe in our room. The result is a show that feels both polished and alive, as if a reel is turning and you can hear the whirr of new ideas catching.

For Le Boui-Boui, programming Flashback: Génération VHS is also about crafting the right conditions for Félix’s humor to thrive. Our team leans into the retro spirit with crisp sound and a cozy front-row layout that magnifies the winks, asides, and tiny visual gags he tosses off between lines. He engages the room in little games of recognition—What did you tape over? Who remembers the snowstorm of a mis-tuned channel?—then snaps those confessions back into his narrative with a grin. The interplay is affectionate, never cynical, and it sparks the kind of communal laughter that our space was built for. Félix’s current artistic focus—digging into analog habits to make sense of digital-age neuroses—has the buoyancy of a comic in forward motion, adding fresh beats and switching angles from night to night. Expect nimble callbacks, a throughline about how memory edits itself like a homemade mixtape, and a flurry of crisp, named routines that punctuate the hour, such as “Appuyer sur REC,” a guided tour of missed cues and mistimed recordings, and “La Cassette Fantôme,” a mini-mystery about a tape with no label and too many possibilities. It’s a living, laughing archive, and in the hands of Félix Le Braz, it clicks into focus beautifully at Le Boui-Boui.