It is difficult to remain calm in the face of the crazy interpretations, the pink hat and the dedication of Marthe Laverdière on stage.
The gardener with many other professions, “who does comedy shows in her free time”, presented her first solo exhibition at the Gésù on Tuesday evening, in front of some members of the artists’ colony, but also and above all in front of the public, who followed the progress of his career through his Horticultural capsules tracked.
The comedian from Bellechasse in Chaudière-Appalaches delivered a good program full of anecdotes and effective excerpts from life for this first show – “which, thank God, is not called La Graine à Marthe,” she considered herself lucky – full of anecdotes and effective excerpts from life, from which we sometimes get a little too very aware of the mechanics behind it, with which she knew how to effortlessly make her audience laugh.
She traces the thread of her own story, among other things, through her stories, incredible to say the least, in which she talks about seeds of all kinds, former customers, her children and her tender “kitten” that she met in high school other things about how she became a gardener late in her life when, without knowing it and on a whim because she was completely cold, she bought a greenhouse building at an auction that took place in the middle of the winter.
The audience’s favorite anecdote was certainly the last one from the show, in which the 60-year-old comedian discussed her past as a therapeutic massage therapist, a course she initially took to learn how to deal with back pain. But it was during her exam, under the watchful eye of her teacher Martine, “that she hated [s’]“to confess” that everything went wrong.
At the end of this issue, it’s hard not to feel sympathy for poor Rénald, “who saw the tunnel and the light,” who lost a few feathers, who got a massage at Purell…
In this first solo exhibition, Marthe Laverdière does not reinvent the wheel. His facial expressions and his frank speech, his easy and predictable wordplay, the never far away double meanings and his colorful, sometimes even exaggerated interpretations easily had their effect on the spectators who did not notice him. Never let it go. There was laughter from start to finish, and some audience members even gasped several times.
At the end of the show, the gardener also took a touching moment to talk about her granddaughter Jeanne, who suffers from atypical Rett syndrome and for whom she has set up a foundation. A portion of the proceeds from his show will be donated to this foundation. This also applies to the recipes in his books.
Under the sober direction of Mario Jean, Marthe Laverdière puts on a show! will certainly appeal to a specific audience.
The comedian will be in Quebec at the Salle Octave-Crémazie on October 17th and 18th.