The visit of Victoria Chaplin - the daughter of the American legend Charlie Chaplin - and Jean-Baptiste Thierrée is difficult to describe with the right amount of enthusiasm, since it is about a creator who, not without reason, has fascinated the world public for decades. Excitement isn't all, though...
The visit of Victoria Chaplin - the daughter of the American legend Charlie Chaplin - and Jean-Baptiste Thierrée is difficult to describe with the right amount of enthusiasm, since it is about a creator who, not without reason, has fascinated the world public for decades. Excitement is not all that the creative couple brings; it is a duo that some very successful producers and creators of modern circus, such as Cirque du Soleil, are inspired by, as they changed the image of the circus genre decades ago with a great deal of poetics and vision. The very fact of how the once promising French actor and the daughter of a famous comedian met says something about the couple's spontaneity and playfulness. Jean-Baptiste "discovered" Victoria in a newspaper article where she appeared in a photo next to her father Charlie. Having read in an article that Victoria would like to become a clown, he wrote her a letter. He wasn't expecting an answer, but Victoria answered him. With this, the two visionaries began their march on world stages. From today's perspective, their success is logical, as students of Resnais, Fellini and Brooke with a desire for new theater and the daughter of a famous comedian are a recipe for fame. A completely different, non-commercial circus without animal cruelty, full of poetry and imagination was created. With their merger, the circus passed from entertainment to artistic theater and became an important theater genre. Despite everything, the seats remained empty when the Invisible Circus was created in the 1990s, although the couple had been successfully entertaining audiences for several decades by then. Thierrée welcomed the sold-out shows with characteristic humor; on the door of the theater at the next performance hung the sign "Invisible theater will be presented to an invisible audience". From then on, there are one hundred and twenty minutes of short scenes playing with the era of British theater popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. a world sensation.
