GROS DÉBIT

Three merry maestros lead their conquest of the pointless with drums beating — a wager on lightness. Here, everything is a pretext for play: they play music and they play with it, with virtuosity that never appears where you expect it — nor does the wrong note. One big bluff! Neither rhyme nor reason, and no words either: barely a sound, yet this show promises to make some noise. Between faux concert airs and genuine moments of grace, the appeal lies as much in the way they play as in the music itself, in an endless game among the three accomplices — and with the audience. Accessible to all, on several levels of reading, this moment of musical clowning pursues a double ambition that nothing can distract: to make young and old laugh.