Magali Gio - Bagage Cabine

Espace Gerson welcomes Magali Gio and Bagage Cabine

At Espace Gerson, we are delighted to host Magali Gio with her new one-woman show, Bagage Cabine, a witty, high-velocity trip through the comedy of everyday travel, identity, and all the little turbulences that connect the two. Our intimate Lyon stage is built for this kind of agile, up-close performance, where a glance, a pause, or a deft shift in rhythm lands as strongly as a punchline. In recent months, Magali Gio has sharpened her voice with fresh material and stage time, leaning into a playful blend of storytelling and quick-change characters that rewards a live audience. Bagage Cabine channels that momentum into a tightly packed set: she opens the overhead compartments of modern life, pulls out the items we all carry, and inspects them with a mischievous smile. We value artists who work with nuance and nerve, and from our vantage point, her sense of timing—by turns delicate and daring—makes the room breathe in unison. For spectators who love clever narrative arcs, physical precision, and a performer who thrives on the room’s energy, this is the night you book early and savor from the first joke to the last bow.

Bagage Cabine unfolds like a perfectly organized carry-on: essential, compact, and surprisingly expansive once unzipped. In our house, where every row feels like the front row, Magali Gio plays with the ritual choreography of airports and trains, but also the private rituals we all perform when we set off for somewhere new. She builds scenes that evolve from a whisper to a whirlwind—observations about queues and announcements become sly meditations on pace, patience, and the art of negotiating space. Expect punctuating set pieces woven into her narrative thread, with bits such as “Contrôle de Sécurité,” “Siège du Milieu,” “Déclaration de Liquides,” and “Escale à Lyon” surfacing and resurfacing as running gags. The humor never settles for the easy laugh; it insists on a human texture: the family chat pinging at the worst possible moment, the romantic layover that lasts too long, the way a stranger’s gesture can change the temperature of a whole carriage. Our room’s acoustics keep her softest asides as alive as her boldest crescendos, turning each callback into a little reunion between artist and audience. It’s that closeness—unique to Espace Gerson—that lets Magali Gio thread a needle between tenderness and audacity, memory and momentum.

Why this night at Espace Gerson matters

We champion artists in the thick of their creative present, and Magali Gio arrives with a suitcase full of new pages and polished beats. Bagage Cabine is the centerpiece, but you can feel the lively ecosystem around it: ideas honed in clubs and ateliers, miniature vignettes tried out with audiences, and a confident sense of structure that comes from staying onstage and in conversation with people. For those following her recent work, you’ll recognize the crisp contours of sketches she has been refining, including “Décollage Imminent,” “Mode Avion,” “Valise Sentimentale,” and “Turbulence Douce,” now recontextualized inside the larger journey of Bagage Cabine. What excites us most is how she uses the architecture of our space—sightlines, silence, and surprise—to build communal moments: laughter that ricochets from back row to front, the hush that invites a revelation, the collective exhale when a story lands exactly as it should. Espace Gerson is a place where artists and audiences test what’s possible together. Hosting Magali Gio at this point in her trajectory means offering you a snapshot of an artist mid-takeoff, balancing control and freedom, precision and play. Bring your curiosity, keep your seatbelt loosely fastened, and let the cabin crew—Magali Gio and our team—guide you through a flight plan designed for shared delight.