SONG DOLL: A PORTRAIT SKETCH OF FRANCE GALL
Spectacle-reading with video projections
September 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM (access time: 6:30 PM)
George Ciprian Theatre Buzau
With:
IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR (France Gall)
CRISTIAN CONSTANTIN (TV Announcer)
Concept, dramaturgy & visuals: RADU RĂDESCU
In 1965, 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥 won the Eurovision contest with the first pop song in the competition's history, "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", written by Serge Gainsbourg specifically for a teenage performer.
The script is built on the model of a monodrama, in which accounts of deeds, events, and lived sensations, introspections, confessions, and meditations from the character's intimate universe find their place. A few inserts from TV newsreels of the time are woven into the dramatic structure, as well as a series of carefully selected hits that led to the worldwide fame of the name France Gall. Thus, the protagonist tells her life in the first person, juxtaposing memories, impressions, dialogues, and fragments of reality or self-fiction.
The show is about the search for identity and the relationship between freedom and constraint/manipulation in the so fragile balance that fame brings to a celebrity's private life.
Duration: approx. 95 minutes
