Proposition / Creation in progress

exactly like a crazy horse

April 3, 4 & 5, 2025 > 8:00pm

Kâmasûtra: an art of loving?

How does this “little book” overflowing with poetry, suspense, humor and irony manage to question our own relationship to eroticism, sexuality and love today?

For this project, I wanted to give voice to the female figure. To venture into the realm of the impossible to express the totality of pleasure!
On stage, two women who delight in playing a key role in this epic of desire, come to debate and grapple.

With mischief, with ardor, they seize upon these “threads of desire”, questioning and shaking up the clichés that often surround the representations we all have of the Kâmasûtra.

What if interpreting this text*, which uses language to teach a knowledge of pleasure while seeking to channel the all-consuming fire (Agni) of passion (Râga), were “a parodic, theatrical performance?

Lara Bruhl

« The Kâmasûtra (…) is perhaps the last encounter with a grammar of desire, combined with the practical idea of a sensual, theatrical existence, lived through formulas, ruses, syllogisms, recipes or various techniques, and poems… ».

Frédéric Boyer
Kâmasûtra, exactly like a crazy horse
Translation from Sanskrit, adaptation and presentation, P.O.L.

A proposition by Lara Bruhl (creation, direction and adaptation)
Based on the Sanskrit translation and adaptation by Frédéric Boyer,
“Kâmasûtra, exactement comme un cheval fou”, Editions P.O.L.
Sound design: Annabelle Brouard
Lighting design: Emmanuelle Phelippeau-Viallard
Work of the song in Sanskrit: Laurence Maman
Outside perspective: Elise Arpentinier
Visuals and costumes: Sophie Piégelin
Stage Manager: Noufel Elkahia

With: Delphine Augereau, Lara Bruhl

Duration : 1h20

Production: Un bureau de production / Cie de l’Acte / Le Milieu
Communication and broadcasting: Valérie Habert
valerie.habert.ubdp@gmail.com / 06 51 28 51 60
Administration: Stéphane Birman
unbureaudeproduction@gmail.com / 06 89 78 12 20