Joseph Gorgoni

Joseph Gorgoni (born May 10, 1966 in Geneva ) is a Swiss cabaret artist . He plays the fictional character Marie-Thérèse Porchet mainly as a transvestite .

Life

Gorgoni did an apprenticeship in a stationery shop and also attended a dance class. After his apprenticeship, he took dance lessons in Geneva and Paris. He toured with a cabaret group, where he mainly focused on dancing and singing, which were taken over by the musical Cats . During a performance in 1990 he met the author Pierre Naftule and planned an appearance with him. In 1993 he developed the character Marie-Thérèse Porchet in La revue genevoise by Pierre Naftule and Pascal Bernheim. The character was inspired by the people Gorgoni and Naftule encountered on a daily basis.

The first program from 1996 was entitled La truie est en moi (“The pig is in me”). In 2003 Marie-Thérèse amoureuse ("Marie-Thérèse in love") followed, which Gorgoni This program performed Gorgoni mainly in Paris. Gorgoni later went on tour with Circus Knie .

Marie-Thérèse Porchet

Marie-Thérèse Porchet.

Marie-Thérèse Porchet, née Bertholet, is a woman in her fifties who lives in Gland in the canton of Vaud . She often calls her friend Jacqueline , has a dog named Bijou, and a gay son named Christian-Christophe . His friend is called Quentin . She sells Tupperware and was in the sect Les amis du soleil ("The Friends of the Sun"). Porchet was in a relationship with the Läckerli seller Rüdi .

In honor of the figure, a square in Gland was renamed Square Marie-Thérèse Porchet .

Appearances

• 1988: Tour with The Rocky Horror Show
• 1989: A role in the comedy musical Cats
• 1998: La truie est en moi . 350 appearances at Comédie Caumartin in Paris , followed by five appearances at Olympia , Paris
• 2001: Tour with Circus Knie in French-speaking Switzerland
• 2002: L'Expo de Marie-Thérèse
• 2003: Marie-Thérèse amoureuse
• 2003: Y a de beaux restes!
• 2004: Tour with Circus Knie in Switzerland
• 2005: Soleil!
• 2007–2008: Uf Düütsch! in German-speaking Switzerland (translation into Bern German and adaptation by Toni Caradonna )
• 2008: EuroPorchet : Premiere on May 20, 2008 in Montreux
• 2009-2010: Superporchet
• 2009–2010: La revue de Marie-Thérèse
• 2010: Tour with Circus Knie in German-speaking Switzerland
• 2011: Tour in German-speaking Switzerland with the Uf Düütsch program
• 2013: Marie-Thérèse Porchet, 20 ans de bonheur!

literature

• Romaine Crettenand-Sierro: Joseph Gorgoni . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse. Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 737. (French)

Web links

• "Marie-Thérèse Porchet uf düütsch"
• Joseph Gorgoni on Marie-Thérèse Porchet and overcoming the Röstigraben . Video from the Kulturplatz broadcast on March 24, 2010