Vanessa Lépine - Amour, Bdsm Et Anxiété - Le Complexe, Lyon

Vanessa Lepine brings Amour, BDSM et Anxiété to Le Complexe - Salle du Bas

From our stage at Le Complexe - Salle du Bas, we are thrilled to welcome Vanessa Lepine and her daring, disarmingly honest Amour, BDSM et Anxiété. Our downstairs room is built for the kind of intimate, high-contact comedy that thrives on eye contact, shared laughter, and the occasional stunned silence before a roar; the low ceiling, close seating, and warm lighting frame every confession and callback with the precision of a spotlight. Vanessa’s hour is an invitation into the contradictions of modern desire and mental health, where a deft turn of phrase can flip vulnerability into bravado and back again. We’ve tuned the sound and sightlines to respond to her pace—breathless flurries of punchlines, measured beats of tension, and the mischievous glances that say more than any setup. Expect a room that amplifies nuance, an audience that leans in, and a performer who knows how to ride that energy until everyone is complicit in the joke.

Current momentum and the shape of an ever-evolving hour

From our vantage point, Vanessa Lepine arrives with genuine momentum: a voice sharpened by club hours, a feel for the crowd that turns the smallest interruption into a new thread, and a sensibility that pairs tenderness with fearless curiosity. Amour, BDSM et Anxiété is very much a living organism—night to night, she shuffles beats and escalates payoffs, weaving in freshly minted lines that catch us off guard even in the booth. While the show anchors itself in the triangular pull of intimacy, kink, and panic spirals, it also blooms into miniature set pieces—observational runs and character pivots that could be summed up as sketch-sized riffs such as “Attachment Styles Anonymous,” “Safe Word, Safe World,” “The Panic Playlist,” and “Aftercare Before Coffee.” Think of these not as fixed chapters but as recurring bits she toys with, building and reframing them depending on the collective mood in the room. Our team has watched these moments grow sharper across performances; when she finds a seam in the crowd—lovers on a first date, friends comparing therapy notes—she unspools it into something specific, personal, and uproarious.

Hosting Vanessa in our Salle du Bas means curating an environment where the punchline lands with precision and the pauses have space to breathe. We design the evening around pace: a brisk welcome, a smooth settle-in, lights that cue attention without crowding, and sound that keeps her softest asides perfectly audible. It’s a show that rewards presence, the kind where you feel the collective temperature rise as she threads consent, miscommunication, and the chaos of desire into a single, high-wire narrative. Whether you come as a couple, with friends who share your penchant for oversharing, or solo and curious, this room turns into a confidante—close enough to catch the glint in Vanessa’s eye when a new tag is born and the laugh explodes a half-second later. At Le Complexe - Salle du Bas, we love watching artists push their material further in real time; with Vanessa Lepine, that evolution is the show’s secret engine, powering an hour that feels both meticulously built and thrillingly alive.