In Sex, grog and rocking chair, Alex Lutz blends absurd humor and intimate emotion to pay tribute to his father, reflect on the passage of time and reconcile generations in a tender, funny and poetic one-man show.
Winner of the Molière Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2016 and 2020, and a César Award winner in 2019 for his film Guy, Alex Lutz blends the personal and the theatrical in Sexe, grog et rocking chair (Sex, Grog and Rocking Chair), written as a tribute to his late father. While gravity and melancholy take center stage, the actor, director, and stage director has lost none of his absurd and offbeat humor, which he still wields with remarkable brilliance.
Approaching fifty, this eternally youthful performer felt compelled to bridge the generational divide, whose conflicts he felt were becoming increasingly palpable. Then his father's death impacted his reflections to the point where he continued the conversation with him, once tumultuous and complicated… At this pivotal moment in his life, Alex Lutz felt the urge to retrace the history of an era—from flower power to the flamboyant 80s—to evoke his generation and today's youth—those who plug in, cloud, and use QR codes! And to cast a tender and moving gaze on the passing years in the company of two equines, Nilo and Saint-Trop, man's best friends… In this equestrian one-man show, facing time galloping by unnoticed, one day, "he buries his father and rocks what's left of him." But always with humor, with that elegance that is so characteristic of him and inspires director Tom Dingler to surpass himself. Mission accomplished!
Winner of the Molière Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2016 and 2020, and a César Award winner in 2019 for his film Guy, Alex Lutz blends the personal and the theatrical in Sexe, grog et rocking chair (Sex, Grog and Rocking Chair), written as a tribute to his late father. While gravity and melancholy take center stage, the actor, director, and stage director has lost none of his absurd and offbeat humor, which he still wields with remarkable brilliance.
Approaching fifty, this eternally youthful performer felt compelled to bridge the generational divide, whose conflicts he felt were becoming increasingly palpable. Then his father's death impacted his reflections to the point where he continued the conversation with him, once tumultuous and complicated… At this pivotal moment in his life, Alex Lutz felt the urge to retrace the history of an era—from flower power to the flamboyant 80s—to evoke his generation and today's youth—those who plug in, cloud, and use QR codes! And to cast a tender and moving gaze on the passing years in the company of two equines, Nilo and Saint-Trop, man's best friends… In this equestrian one-man show, facing time galloping by unnoticed, one day, "he buries his father and rocks what's left of him." But always with humor, with that elegance that is so characteristic of him and inspires director Tom Dingler to surpass himself. Mission accomplished!
