at my feelings, In her second solo show, Virginie Fortin continues her half-existential, half-nanny musings on the meaning – or rather nonsense – of life. An encounter with a funky and entertainingly informative comedian.
The title of your show suggests that it will be more personal. However, you are not the kind of comedian who tells tales from his life on stage. What are these feelings?
I knew the title would have that effect! I realized that everything is a feeling. even if Displays has not been called my feelingsHe was talking about my feelings. All songs in the world can be called my feelings. Everything, everything, everything can be called my feelings. It is believed to be a file Displays More personal and there is some truth to that. My main feelings, which are nostalgia and the idea of why we exist, are strange, stem from childhood. So I have no choice but to talk about the first moments when I asked my parents these questions.
Do you tell yourself that it’s “weird to be someone” from a young age?
Yes, and I still tell myself that every day. I am able to work, but every hour of my life I realize that I am trapped in a human body. It is very strange. Every person a person! Our lives are organized into routines that do not allow us to get lost in these questions for too long.
Does humor allow you to make sense of this nonsense?
I guess that’s the reason for the humor… When I started this business, I was doing it jokes to make jokes. From experience, it appears that I no longer have a lot of humility, that I am able and that I have the tools to talk about what really interests me and what worries me. Humor is a mechanism to protect ourselves from what haunts us. After that, I don’t live in extreme distress. These questions bothered me for a long time, but when I accepted that I would never understand, they became hilarious.
After all, it’s just noise in the universeTo quote the title of your first show…
exactly! As far as we got out of my last post Displays A little nervous, as far as we get out of this we tell ourselves, “Ah, it’s not so serious after all,” even if I talk about the problems that make everyday life stressful.
You described your first show as “existential and ridiculous.” Can the same be said about this?
As it applies to my feelings. It’s my style of humour. I ask myself unresolved questions, but I don’t quote Nietzsche anyway! I am very stupid in life. (He laughed.) In improvisation, I wasn’t the one who came up with a super-intelligent suggestion, like, “We’ll do this in Ionesco theater style”; I was always the lady who would come up and say, “Who farted in Frigidaire?” Then, when I found out stand upI became interested in comedians who took my mind to places it wouldn’t have gone alone, like Stuart Lee, Bridget Christie and Daniel Kitson.
Seems like great serious work, but we’re ridiculous, Gang. Still humor!
Virginie Fortin, on her show
In 2018, you told us about your intention to earn a master’s degree in philosophy before your 40th birthday. How is this project progressing?
I still intend to go back to school, but my master’s degree will have to wait. When the pandemic started, I signed up as a free student at Concordia. I took Portuguese lessons there on Zoom. I want to go back to school just because I feel like it. I’ve settled into a career that doesn’t go wrong, and I don’t have the pressure to study that will lead to something. It’s really hard when you’re young to make the choices to become a person later on. I speak accurately in my own Displays The need to do something that makes us “useful”. Me, I’ve studied useless cases, which finally help me because I talk about them on stage and they’re good jokes. I get the impression that there is no really useless learning.
Among your other projects, you will be in distribution December 23A film written by India Desjardins and directed by Myriam Bouchard. Is it kind of really love Quebec?
India said it’s like really love, but not a problem! It’s a Christmas choir movie. My character is Elsa Lévesque, and she is described as a solid bachelor who wants to find love. It is a very funny romantic comedy. I can’t believe it’s my first movie! I was offered this role on a silver platter.
Virginie Fortin will present my feelings At the National Theatre From March 8 to 10, then on a tour around Quebec.
