Le Voisin De Et Avec Benoît Turjman

Le Voisin at Le Complexe - Salle du Haut

At Le Complexe - Salle du Haut, we are delighted to welcome Le Voisin, the beloved silent comedy by Benoît Turjman, to our intimate upstairs room. Our stage was designed for proximity: here, every eyebrow lift, every mischievous glance, and every physical flourish reads with clarity, turning the slightest movement into a shared secret between artist and audience. This is precisely the terrain where Benoît Turjman excels. His character, both ordinary and irresistibly unpredictable, transforms a staircase, a hallway, or a door handle into an epic battleground for hopes, fears, and hilarity. Without a single spoken word, the performance invites the room into a choreography of everyday absurdity, steeped in the tradition of visual comedy yet fully anchored in today’s rhythms and attention spans. The compact contours of Salle du Haut amplify the show’s musicality—the rustle of a coat, the faint creak of a floorboard—and our technical team tailors lights and cues so the comic beats land with precision, timing, and warmth.

As a venue dedicated to live discovery, we have been following Benoît Turjman’s momentum with admiration. His recent seasons have seen full houses across France and beyond, with Le Voisin steadily expanding to new cities, festivals, and cultural centers while gathering a diverse audience—from theater lovers to first-time comedy goers who are surprised by how immediate and international physical humor can be. Alongside the touring stage version, his character has sparked a stream of short-form pieces that fans often nickname by their central gag: La Sonnette, La Valise, or Le Palier—miniatures that distill the larger show’s playful tension into crisp, shareable moments. Whether encountered in a theater like ours or through these tightly crafted vignettes, the craft remains the same: a blend of precision mime, deadpan fantasy, and razor-sharp observation. In recent showcases and comedy lineups, the character has proven equally at home among stand-up, clowning, and contemporary theater, bridging genres without losing the simplicity that makes Le Voisin so endearing. It’s an artistry that nods to Chaplin, Keaton, and Tati while speaking with Benoît Turjman’s own unmistakable timing.

What to expect in our room

Our audience at Le Complexe - Salle du Haut can expect a living cartoon—a succession of situations where the neighbor’s routine explodes into comic invention. The silence is never empty; it is full of beats, reversals, and micro-surprises that our room’s scale magnifies beautifully. We keep the seating close to the action so spectators can savor details: the economy of gesture, the elasticity of a pause, the split-second turn that flips innocence into mischief. The production rides on sound design as much as silence, and our engineers shape the environment so that every shuffle, zipper, and door-click becomes part of the score. Because Le Voisin thrives on complicity, the show feels different each night, drawing on the unique chemistry of the crowd—exactly the kind of live electricity we cherish here. For families, theater buffs, and comedy aficionados alike, it’s the rare piece that can be enjoyed across ages and languages. We invite you to discover or rediscover Benoît Turjman’s artistry in the conditions it deserves: close-up, attentive, and generous, in a room built to honor nuance and to turn laughter into a collective rhythm.