It’s strange. We would almost be surprised, to meet Louis Arene and Lionel Lingelser, to discover their real faces. Which seem to be in reverse mirror, as if their love of contrast was lived in their own flesh. Angular, blue eyes, pink hair, for one. Sweetness of the lines, brown eyes, brown hair, for the other. Athletic silhouette, in both cases. Large of the masks he carries in his shows, the duo at the head of the Munstrum Theater still causes trouble. As if Louis Arene and Lionel Lingelser carried on them the potential of metamorphosis which they keep exploring from one creation to another.
In recent years, their shows have been a crazy success wherever they go, especially with young people, who acclaim this superlative and queer theater, ultraphsic and visual, with postapocalyptic accents and yet completely enjoyable. And who, surprised, puts the good old theater mask on the spotlight, a little forgotten object and here rediscovered in his infinite possibilities.
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