

The performers pin all the flying answers to the blackboard: « I could never play Barbie as a boy » « Box as a girl », « Boys don’t cry », » Girls don’t need to study », « don’t go out with wet hair for fear of catching a cold », « Pretty Woman, James Bond typically male or female? » ©Halima Habil Le Petit Chapeu Rouge It only takes a few prompts for the ice to break and for an initially shy audience to unite in lively chatter, laughter and sometimes banter. Amongst intrigued murmurs a forum is started about gender tabus, gender prejudices and gender habits inherited from parents. What happens tonight is in the moment and only « together with you », audience members, who through their suggestions will steer the show. The group warns us that this is an improv show and therefore will not and cannot ever happen again. A show about them-feminine and masculine, skillfully crafted by four experienced improvisers who believe in magic and make magic happen on stage TADAM demonstrate how delightful an improv show can be and prove their position leading veterans of the Belgian improv scene. TADAM investigates at Le Petit Chapeau Rond Rouge the battle between sexes.The improv show “Ils/Elles” explores the “he/she” conditioned by our parents, the forbidden he/she and the “them” that we replicate.
