Gustave Parking - De Mieux En Mieux Pareil

Espace Gerson welcomes Gustave Parking

At Espace Gerson, we relish the rare occasions when an artist’s imagination seems to stretch the walls of our intimate room. That is the exact sensation when Gustave Parking steps on our stage with De mieux en mieux pareil. From the first beat, he unpacks a world of playful logic: visual gags that ping like fireworks, object-theatre that turns everyday materials into magical contraptions, and bursts of physical comedy that flow into mischievous wordplay. His artistry thrives on proximity; the front rows can catch the twinkle in his eye as surely as the sleight of hand, and the last rows feel the ripple effects of a collective laugh. De mieux en mieux pareil is a title that says it all—each return to an idea reveals a new angle, a fresh detour, a delightful contradiction. Our room’s human scale amplifies this approach, letting Parking’s eco-minded inventions and poetic tinkering breathe. Expect a mix of clowning, mime fragments, sly riffs on language, musical interludes, and quick-fire improvisations that summon the audience into the game without ever losing the throughline of a meticulously crafted show.

The artist’s momentum, right now

Hosting Gustave Parking at Espace Gerson means celebrating an artist who keeps his craft defiantly alive and current. He relishes a present-tense rapport with the audience; he tests, trims, and reframes material so that De mieux en mieux pareil remains a living organism rather than a museum piece. One night, a paper object acquires a personality; another night, the same prop becomes a percussion instrument; on yet another, it’s a plot twist. If you follow the pulse of contemporary French comedy through shows like Quotidien, Le Late avec Alain Chabat, or Télématin, you will recognize the same appetite for quick invention and topical sparks, though Parking filters that energy through his singular universe of repurposed gadgets and wide-eyed wonder. The “actualité artistique” here is not a press headline so much as a creative state: he is in the thick of it, revisiting his toolbox, teasing out new timings, and folding in the day’s quirks. The result is a version of De mieux en mieux pareil that feels tailor-made for this season, these spectators, this city—Lyon—tonight.

Our team at Espace Gerson has tuned the room to suit his kinetic grammar: crisp light for miniature miracles, shadow for sleight-of-thought, and sound that flatters sudden swerves from whisper to punchline. The set is lean by design, because gravity is his co-star and surprise is his soundtrack; with a turn of the wrist, a suitcase becomes a theater, a scrap turns into choreography, and a gust of laughter becomes the cue for the next visual switchback. We love how this show engages every corner of the house: the front catches the craft, the middle rides the rhythm, the back savors the picture as a whole. And when the lights lift, the atmosphere lingers in our lobby, where spectators compare favorite moments—was it the improbable balance trick, the runaway word cascade, or the delicate silence that made the final laugh bloom? De mieux en mieux pareil is precisely what we want our stage to host: a warm, disarming, inventive encounter between a comedian at full tilt and an audience eager to play along, right here at Espace Gerson.