Les Vice Versa - Imagine

Les Vice Versa bring Imagine to THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON

At THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON, we are delighted to welcome Les Vice Versa with their new creation, Imagine, a finely tuned blend of sketch, physical comedy, musical agility, and quick-witted theatricality. Hosting this duo on our stage is an invitation for audiences to step into a playful laboratory where two performers reinvent the rules of timing, rhythm, and complicity in real time. Imagine is built like a cinematic score that moves from whisper to crescendo; it captures the duo’s signature mix of vocal harmonies, sound effects, and tightly choreographed surprises. From our vantage point backstage and in the house, what strikes us most is how Les Vice Versa create an atmosphere of collective imagination—audiences lean forward, anticipating the next left turn, then burst into laughter at a perfectly timed reversal. The show’s pacing is lively yet precise, its transitions seamless, and its tone warmly inclusive, inviting everyone to recognize themselves in these cheeky, elastic portraits of everyday life turned upside down.

Les Vice Versa have stepped up their artistic momentum this season, and we’ve followed it closely as their new material travels from rehearsal room to stage. Their recent onstage bits—refined through intimate previews and larger-room test runs—demonstrate a renewed focus on musical staging and gesture-driven punchlines. Fans who track their creative life beyond the theater will have noticed fresh capsules and sketch excerpts circulating online, including titles like Le Métronome humain and Ciné-karaoké, which showcase how they stitch choreography to comedy without losing spontaneity. In performance, these modular ideas are expanded, recomposed, and interlaced with audience interplay; sometimes a look or a rest in the score is funnier than a line. From where we stand as a venue, the duo’s craft has deepened: their vocal layering is tighter, their character shifts more readable from the back row, and their sense of room dynamics—how to ride a laugh, when to hold silence—has become a masterclass in live timing.

Why Imagine belongs on our stage now

Programming Imagine at THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON felt natural because the show amplifies what our room does best: intimacy with impact. The sightlines favor the duo’s detailed mime and micro-expressions, while the acoustics carry their beat-perfect hushes and crescendos without losing nuance. Our audiences have responded to the way Les Vice Versa break the fourth wall with generosity rather than gimmicks; they fold crowd reactions into the rhythm of the piece, making each performance a one-night-only composition. As curators, we also value how Imagine converses with today’s comedy landscape—hybrid, musical, collaborative. The duo’s recent live extracts such as L’Orchestre invisible and Conférence gesticulée de l’imaginaire capture a modern appetite for shows that are both precise and permeable, built to breathe with a room. Expect call-and-response games, cinematic cutaways executed with bodies and beat, and a finale that feels earned rather than engineered. We’re proud to situate this stop in Lyon as a moment where returning fans will spot the evolution, and newcomers will discover why the name Les Vice Versa has become a byword for clever, musical, and irresistibly human comedy.