Why Improvisational Theatre at the Gay Games?
Improvisational theater is organized as a tournament in which various teams compete on a stage resembling the reproduction of an ice rink. Improvisational theater is a sport because it borrows its collective agreements in sports especially ice hockey, the national sport in Quebec, where was born the principle of improvisation match.
Venue: La Gaieté Lyrique
Theater for all with the International Visual Theatre (IVT).
Located in the historic premises of the former theater of Grand Guignol (9thdistrict, Paris) IVT is today a unique place in France.
First professional company of deaf actors and pioneer teacher of the FSL, International Visual Theatre works since 1976 to gather between deaf and hearing cultures. At the same time, theater, publisher, place of artistic creation and sign language school, International Visual Theatre is a cultural crossroads, a place of exchange and discovery for the deaf and hearing. We come to IVT to see performances, visual theater, classical and contemporary texts, song, poetry, storytelling, dance, puppetry or shadow play...
The IVT is directed by actress Emmanuelle Laborit. She received the Molière, equivalent of an Oscar for theater, as theatrical revelation in 1993 for her role in The Children of Silence, adapted from the American play “Children of a Lesser God” written by Mark Medoff. She is the first deaf actress to receive in France such an award and becomes the ambassador of sign language in France.
Emmanuelle Laborit decided to support the candidacy of Paris for the Gay Games in 2018 to fight against all forms of discrimination in sport but also in access to culture. With IVT she wishes to contribute to the cultural program.
