Compagnie Dérézo

Par les bouches

Mathilde Velsch, Robin Le Moigne

“Par les bouches” is the third part of the culinary triptych of Compagnie Dérézo. It is a show staged around a rather unique meal, where two interpreters-’cuisiniers-toqués’ invite you into their kitchen. Around a large wooden counter in the shape of a giant mouth, you are forty, sitting and preparing to hear a culinary story – between birth and death – of this organ that we all have and about which we rarely speak: the mouth!

This ingenious orifice, the cradle of singing and speech as well as of kissing and smiling – through which air, dentist’s tools, or even food enter and exit – already summons the long metaphorical litany of ‘mouthwatering’, ‘saying a mouthful’ and ‘to foam at the mouth’, ‘to turn his tongue seven times in his mouth’, etc.

Designed in complicity with culinary author Miske Alhaouthou, dishes and drinks make up a gustatory landscape, magnified by texts from both the classical and contemporary repertoire, at the service of this theatrical journey. Mischievously drawing on sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnology or poetry, here is a one-hour parenthesis around a chiseled scenography dedicated to taste and listening, thereby recombining – for our greatest joy – these two instruments of the music of our bodies: our mouth and ears !

A culinary story of the mouth, from the primal cry to the last gasp.

Company presentation

Anchored in Brest since May 2000, Compagnie Dérézo offers unwonted spectacular forms. Positioned as researchers, the artists who compose it create the possibility of a poetic act pushed to its limit: politics. Dérézo cultivates ambiguity as a martial art, an effective antidote to language poisoning, because learning to speak is learning to fight. In the heart of the city, Dérézo listens to the words, the fantasies, and the anxiety of the inhabitants, with whom they aim to reaffirm and re-enchant the fact that being together is a job, a responsibility, and a weapon.

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Mathilde Velsch - Actress

After graduating from Sciences Po Rennes (winner of the 2017 Mirabeau prize) and the Conservatoire de Rennes (Theatral studies), as well as being a sailing instructor, Mathilde is now an actress and director.
In 2018, she wrote and staged a public reading at the Théâtre des Corps Saints (Festival d'Avignon): Eve et Adam. In 2019, she becomes president of the Festival de théâtre politique Théâtropolis, where she writes and stages a stage proposal with the 2018/2019 class of the professional theatre orientation cycle at the Rennes Conservatory: La Traversée et après. At the end of 2019, she joined the jury of the Nanterre Festival sur Scène. Between 2020 and 2022, she acted in an adaptation of John Fante’s Demande à la poussière (Théâtre de l'Ephémère, Le Mans), directed by Maxime Pichon.
She was in charge of administration at the Théâtre de Cornouaille (Scène nationale de Quimper) in 2021/2022, before joining Compagnie Dérézo as an actress. (LennuT and Par Les Bouches - creation May 2025). In January 2024, she was a choreographic artist in Gala
by Jérôme Bel (Le Quartz, national stage of Brest). Since April 2024, she has been an interpreter at Ana Hna (Institut Français de Casablanca - Morocco). Mathilde is currently staging her second show: Bleue, immersive theater in a sailboat (Cooperation Artists' Itinerary promotion 2025).

Robin Le Moigne - Actor

Robin began acting in 2014 when he was admitted to the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique of Brest, under the direction of Régine Trotel. He stayed there for three years. During this period, he had the opportunity to participate in numerous workshops under the direction of different professionals such as Éric Vigner (director), Isabelle Lafon (director), Gilles Ostrowsky (clown) or Céline Schaeffer (director/visual artist). Thereafter, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire of Toulouse, under the direction of Pascal Papini. In 2019, he joined the professional training program Présences d'acteurs at the Le Hangar theater in Toulouse.
In 2020, Robin returns to settle in Brest. From now on, he works with several theatre companies as an actor (Compagnie Dérézo, Compagnie PAULE). He is a member of the CLEBARD reading committee from Brest on dramatic art. On January 20, 2024, he danced for the opening of Le Quartz in the show Gala by Jérôme Bel.

Distribution

Director Charlie Windelschmidt
Culinary author Miske Alhaouthou
Set construction by Charlie Windelschmidt and Ronan Rouanet
Costumes Youna Vignault
Administration Sophie Desmerger
Production Mathilde Pakette
Broadcasting Louise Vignault
Broadcasting and communication Nina Faidy

Production

Production Compagnie Dérézo
Co-production
L’Atelier à Spectacle – Art and Creation Stage of the Pays de Dreux Agglo (28)
Departmental Council of Eure-et-Loir (28)
DRAC Centre-Val de Loire (45)
Le Manège Maubeuge – Scène nationale Transfrontalière (59)
Construction of the stage stools – Carried out by 4th and 3rd year SEGPA students from Joséphine Baker Middle School, Brest (29)
Plate making – Team Dérézo. l’Atelier HyperBol, Daoulas (29)
Manufacturing of the Cigar Box guitar – Lobo Guitar Box (22)

In the press

"... The accuracy of play of the two interpreters-’cuisiniers-toqués’, Mathilde Velsch and Robin Le Moigne, enhances all its flavor. Compagnie Dérézo went into overdrive for this joyful adventure."

Marie-Céline Nivière | Coups d'oeil

"One feels infinitely satisfied by the multiplicity of flavors, ideas and poems."

Bruno Fougniès | La Revue du Spectacle

"Earthly food is served with care, in a very precise order. Spiritual food, on the other hand, passes through beautiful reflections on life, the relationship to food, to the nourishing mother, to the human being."

Bruno Fougniès | La Revue du Spectacle