The Night Life of Pamela, 2012
By day, Garbatje is a nurse in Bruge. By night, everywhere else, he’s Pamela. Come nighttime, parading her body before an audience, she sashays across the stage singing Lisa Minelli on playback.
This is Pamela’s life but also Ilda’s, Rudy’s and Brigitte’s.
Depending on the contract, they perform in cafés for surprise parties, in rec rooms who welcome the excluded or the handicapped, as well as full-fledged cabarets where notaries and farmers mingle.
This group rubs shoulders with an audience who isn’t there to see a show following proper conduct guidelines. Friendly, but sometimes hostile or lewd, this audience of plebes doesn’t possess the docility reserved to Michou’s parisian nights.
While the audience is warming up, the troupe is getting ready in the dressing rooms with manners and sweetness, loving thoughtfulness. It’s almost as though each took and gave love backstage, like an armor, in order to be strong and convincing frontstage.
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