Mon Mariage, Mes Emmerdes !

SALLE PAUL GARCIN welcomes Mon Mariage, mes emmerdes

At SALLE PAUL GARCIN in Lyon, we are delighted to host Mon Mariage, mes emmerdes, a whirlwind stage comedy that captures the glorious chaos of saying “I do” when everything—and everyone—has other plans. From our vantage point as the presenting venue, what excites us most this season is the show’s living, breathing momentum: the company arrives with sharpened timing, newly finessed transitions, and a fresh energy that plays beautifully in our intimate auditorium. We love programming work that speaks to everyday life with theatrical flair, and this piece routes the hilarity of pre-wedding expectations through rapid-fire dialogue, physical comedy, and quick character pivots. Whether performed by an ensemble or led by a solo artist who inhabits a gallery of relatives, colleagues, and vendors, the piece lands its jokes on rhythm and recognition. You can feel the audience lean in as scenes build, laughter crests, and that special kind of complicity blooms between stage and seats that our room was designed to amplify.

Inside the comedy: rhythm, characters, and sharply observed life

Mon Mariage, mes emmerdes thrives on the razor’s edge between love and logistics. The writing leans into the tragedy-comedy of guest lists, seating charts, budgets, wildly divergent family traditions, and social-media performance anxiety. The crowd favorites are the set-piece bits—brisk, tightly structured sequences that function like sketches you can quote on the way home. Among the recurring highlights, audiences have been buzzing about La Liste des Invités, Le Plan de Table, Le Discours du Témoin, La Belle-Mère, La Robe Introuvable, and Le Cousin DJ: a run of scenes that toggle between biting one-liners and snowballing situational farce. Staging mirrors the script’s pace: a bouquet becomes a baton, a phone turns into a siren, a roll of ribbon turns into handcuffs of obligation. Our team especially appreciates how the production rides the line between stand-up bite and boulevard mechanics, slipping from confessional asides into full-tilt door-slamming mayhem without losing the human pulse beneath the jokes.

From the stagecraft side, SALLE PAUL GARCIN offers an environment where this material truly breathes. The set’s modular pieces—suggestive frames that morph from bridal boutique to rehearsal dinner to town hall—pivot quickly in our space, while lighting shifts isolate confidences, amplify punchlines, and then open back out for wide-angle family showdowns. Sound design layers ring tones, voice notes, and applause loops into an acoustic collage that our room’s warm clarity renders with detail, so every aside lands and every topper is audible from the front row to the back. We also value how current the show feels this season: newly polished beats, topical asides on budgeting and modern etiquette, and nimble audience interplay keep each performance alive to the night. Expect crowd-pleasing callbacks, crisp act-outs that escalate in waves, and the satisfying architecture of a story that sprints toward a finish line only to discover three more hurdles. As hosts, we relish that kinetic rapport; it’s exactly the kind of theatrical electricity our stage was built to frame.