FATUS CIRCUS

« A fantastic modern clown... A one-man circus !
This guy is crazy, a 'screwball with a screw loose'! With incredible talent. You want more, but it's already over. You float outside, a smile on your face, pumped with good feeling that lasts quite a while.» Ouest France.

« Pierre Fatus brings the audience along for a trip around the ring on the edges of surrealistic comedy. The writing of his show incorporates a complete lighting architecture that furnishes the theatrical space. He makes use of a very rich language of sound which, as associated with various subjects and situations, draws the audience into his universe. That universe is always funny, sometimes surrealistic, occasionally moving and continuously sprinkled with a cloud of irrationality. A selection of sound effects in perfect synch with his corporeal acting gives the show a rhythm and frenetic quality that makes it fly up to the gates of eccentricity.
A modern clown, an inspired clown, he allows his body - and his passion - to speak for him.» Press Océan.

« An hour of hilarious entertainment, with poetry and humor, circus and theater vying for the forefront. Fatus allows his dreams to take shape in a surrealistic ruckus. The insolence of his movements and elegant style, a lucid mind and an exuberant logic all communicate with the audience in an explosive cocktail, as provocative as can be.»
L’Est-Eclair

« Osteopath of silliness, decathlon athlete of vigilance, Fatus is the right kind of clown, which is to say a serious and authentic clown who knows - and this has become quite rare - how to be one with his words.
Off in search of the homo ridiculus from which we all descend, musical clearings and choreographed gesticulation, Fatus visits the world for us, a world sprinkled with look-alikes and illusion. Caught up in a jubilant verbal obstacle course, this poetic and singular clown aims high and far - to ward off the approaching psychological darkness he holds up the milky way with great handfuls of neurons. » Stefan Lévy-Kuentz

« Fatus: Simply Fabulous.
The gags keep coming from the beginning to the end, he takes literal and figurative falls, funky and absurd without a breather, an audience in anticipation, a spontaneous interaction between the artist and his audience, which responds, lives the show, unabashedly and quite naturally takes part in it.
Pierre Fatus' one-man show was, it is widely agreed, 'simply fabulous.'
... He has revived the genre. » Ouest France.

« After a mesmerizing performance, Pierre Fatus gave his own definition of the clown: 'He is the surrealistic logic than children have naturally. That part of us is turned off later in life. It's a logic of emotion, not of the rational. It's the body that speaks and passion is the motive behind everything. It blows raspberries at borders and narrowness. » L’Est républicain.

« Fatus thaws out the audience on opening night.
The Festival du Rire opened with a bang.
A tour de force which the crowd loudly and longly applauded at the end.
A veritable one-man show with the unique quality of never lapsing into vulgarity. Over an hour of pure enjoyment... High art which only made the audience hungry for more. Proof that you can bring laughter and emotion when you have that kind of talent. » La Provence.

« Fatus won the Bouffon d'Or...
A master of sound effects.
A real sense of the gag. » Le Dauphiné

« The 15th national festival of humorists in Tournon ended this weekend.
Since its inception, many big names have dropped in - Les Chevaliers du Fiel, Anne Roumanoff, Dany Boon, Laurent Gerra, Rufus, Sellig, Anthony Kavanagh, Eric et Ramzy, Smaïn… This year, Pierre Fatus has won the festival's grand prize.
Fatus lets his dreams speak in a clownish and surrealistic ruckus which seems to have worked particularly well on the jury. » Le Progrès de Lyon

« With the fantasmagoric adventures of Fatus, laughter is hard currency.
Insolent in his movement, a clown of contemporary panic, Fatus puts the world through the burlesque blender of his mind. »
« In an astounding exercise of synchronization between his soundtrack and his clown-mime pirouettes, Fatus takes his audience along for a romp in the world of the Tex Avery style cartoon, slashing manga animation, Raging Bull style boxing pictures - all to leave us with a clean KO of laughter. »
« To achieve this humor, which is so in step with our times, the clown works like a painter or a jazz musician. This time - and it's no accident - poetry and burlesque are born of a soundtrack of cut-and-paste of effects, giggles and clamors, pieced together by Fatus himself. This is a mix you've got to hear. » Le Midi Libre

« The spectacular Pierre Fatus, unrelentingly powerful... A name you'll hear again. Under the timid exterior of this one-man band, there is a master of both musical instruments and boxing gloves. To the tune of a soundtrack or a simple object, the artist cleverly plays with the absurd, giving his body over to characters and situations. Let's hope the next edition comes out soon. » Ouest France

Previously, on Fatus...

« A real discovery, one that brings happiness and joy, is rare...
One doesn't come across a poet as funny as that very often. » France-Soir

« A surefire cure for depression - run to see Fatus, that odd zebra who dances, juggles and plays seven instruments... » Le Nouvel Observateur

« Fatus has more than one trick up his sleeve - he's an experienced entertainer... He knows how to set a mood through original invention and twists and turns of every kind. This man can do it all and he does it well ! » Le Figaro

« Fatus has had quite a journey, first with Arianne Mnouchkine and Niels Arestrup, then gestural and musical acrobatics with Annie Fratellini. Behind his script, his musical pen was dipped in Eric Satie's inkwell. It's surprising and a poem from beginning to end. » France-Soir

« The whole house is breaking up, going wild...
It would really be a mistake for to take his circus elsewhere. » L’Evènement du Jeudi

« At times a clown, at times shades of Charlie Chaplin, always funny, always true... Entertainment for everyone, one that will make you laugh and ask some pertinent questions. » Le Monde de l’Education

« A giant leap for human laughter..! » Télérama

« An hour of gags, revolt and nocturnal clamor. » Paris Boum-Boum

« Fantastic energy and the skill of an actor. » Libération

« Rigorous direction. Tati, Etaix, Jerry Lewis are never far away. » La Scène

« A one-man show of surprising comic efficiency... » L’Evènement du Jeudi

« Fatus seems like he just stepped out of a Jacques Tati movie on a holiday, juggling words but not only words. A clown and poet not quite so naive as all that... » France 2 Journal de 20h

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