Thaïs - Fille De Joie - Tournée

Le Rideau Rouge welcomes Thaïs with Fille de joie

At Le Rideau Rouge, we are delighted to host the magnetic voice and razor-edged wit of Thaïs for Fille de joie, a one-woman show that feels tailor‑made for the intimacy of our room. From our vantage point backstage and in the house, we have watched audiences lean in as she threads irony, tenderness, and a playful dose of provocation into a performance that breathes with the room. Fille de joie is fueled by finely chiseled stand‑up, agile physicality, and a conversational rhythm that lets each punchline arrive exactly when you want it—and occasionally when you don’t expect it. In our venue’s warm acoustics, her timing lands with crisp clarity, and the spontaneous exchanges she sparks with the crowd—those flashes of living, in‑the‑moment comedy—have a space to bloom. It is a show that thrives on proximity: close enough to catch every eyebrow raise and darting aside, expansive enough to travel from biting social observation to mischievous confession in a heartbeat.

Artistic news and the pulse of the scene

Fille de joie arrives at Le Rideau Rouge in full momentum, as Thaïs carries the tournée across the country and tests new edges in her material night after night. The appetite for her perspective—unfiltered but never gratuitous, playful yet precise—has only grown with each packed date, and our team has felt the buzz from the moment tickets went on sale. Her work is firmly anchored in the contemporary francophone stand‑up wave, a movement shaped by the quicksilver energy of stages and formats that audiences have devoured in recent seasons, from Paname Comedy Club and Le Fridge to the Montreux Comedy Festival. That same pulse runs through Fille de joie, but the tone is unmistakably her own: less posture, more truth; less sermon, more game. As the tournée expands, Thaïs keeps a live‑wire connection with her community—teasing fragments of new bits, sharpening ideas between shows, and letting the audience’s laughter act as a compass. The result on our stage is a set that feels current, lived‑in, and thrillingly alive.

For our audience at Le Rideau Rouge, the evening opens like a confessional whispered through a grin. Thaïs pivots from the rituals of dating to the politics of desire, from the myths of independence to the realities of ambition, braiding bold statements with sly reversals that let laughter release the pressure. She plays with tempo—tight, rapid‑fire sequences followed by lingering pauses—and her crowd work becomes a running duet with the room, lightly roasting and warmly including in equal measure. You will hear riffs that glint with social commentary and detours that verge on the poetic, all anchored by the title’s promise: Fille de joie is not a slogan but a stance, a wry claim to pleasure and agency that she defends with jokes as sharp as stilettos. As hosts, we’ve seen how this show transforms the space: the hush as a story tightens, the crack of a punchline, the aftershock of recognition. It is the kind of night Le Rideau Rouge was built for—authentic, intimate, and gloriously human.