SENSITIVE VISITS

Take part in this original guided tour, a kind of documentary theater. In this play, which he describes as "a stroll to meet ourselves", author and performer Thierry Combe, from Compagnie Pocket Théâtre, invites you to discover your Krutenau district through the prism of little stories and anecdotes.

After taking a tender look at Narbonne, Dole, Mâcon and other towns in eastern France, the actor stops off in Strasbourg. To build up this stroll, he spent two days meeting local residents, gathering first-hand accounts and memories. Over the following two days, Thierry Combe wrote this show based on the words shared. On the fifth day, he delivers a unique show.

His sensitive theatrical tour brings to life personal and family stories with humor and mischief. Stories that are both intimate and universal. By transforming the street into a stage, Thierry Combe imagines this visit as an inner journey. A journey from which everyone returns transformed, connected to others, touched by the confidences gleaned along the way.

Each performance is thus a generous attempt to meet the spectators at their most secret. A deeply human moment, surprisingly deployed in the public space.

Author, performer, director and artistic director of the company Pocket Théâtre which he founded in 2006, Thierry Combe defends a sincere and popular theater. In Léon (2015), he chronicles a professional vocation that straddles the line between nostalgia and militancy. With Jean-Pierre, Lui, Moi (2017), a play about disability and siblings, the actor pursues his theatrical anthropological quest by developing an oral mode of writing, in confrontation with the audience. Au Pire, Ça Marche! (2022) is an opportunity for him to slalom between themes as vast as democracy, education and soccer. With La Conserverie Théâtrale (2021), Thierry Combe mischievously invites us to question what nourishes us, and the place of theater in our lives. In 2024-25, he created the Franco-Burkinabè diptych Homme(s) Intègre(s)? in which two life stories are interwoven, as a means of questioning cooperation, reciprocity and friendship.

" By dealing with strong social issues, and using the words they have collected, the company draws on the intimate and the lived to better reach the universal. "
Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire, 2025

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