The Tonya Harding case, you don’t skate with love

The Tonya Harding case you dont skate with love

This is the story of one of the biggest scandals in American sports history. On January 6, 1994, the skater Nancy Kerrigan, great hope of the Lillehammer Olympic Games, was attacked. Very quickly the suspicions turn towards the entourage of Tonya Harding, another skater and competitor of the victim. From this news item, Laure Boisaubert, Alexandra Hernandez and Manon Preterre imagined for the stage of the Déchargeurs a show full of energy and full of second degree.

We are almost 30 years ago in 1994, in a very small, very particular world: the world of American figure skating. At that time, two stars held the top of the pavement, or rather of the ice rink: Nancy Kerrigan, an Ice Princess with an angelic smile as popular with the public as with the competition juries; and Tonya Harding, a much more controversial performer, considered too vulgar, but talented, hardworking, to the point of mastering the famous triple axel. Six weeks before the Olympic Games, an individual attacks Nancy in the middle of training, and injures her knee with an iron bar.

Our guests turned this dramatic affair into a play full of energy, vitality, humor and burlesque. An astonishing soap-opera with freeze frames. A show full of second degree which is also a joyful satire of the American dream, the myth of equal opportunities, appearance and money-king in sport, media excesses too.

Poor White Trash, the Tonya Harding Affair » is playing in Paris at the Théâtre des Déchargeurs until May 20.

The director Laure Boisaubertand actresses Alexandra Hernández And Manon Preterre are the guests of VMDN.

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