Marjolaine Minot and Josune Goenaga & Manuel Schunter

Photo: Jeanne Roualet

Marjolaine Minot was born in Paris in 1978. She is an author, actress and director. Although she grew up in a family of dancers and musicians, she initially turned to the visual arts and writing. She began her acting training in Paris and then moved to Switzerland a few years later to complete a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in movement theatre. Marjolaine writes her plays and also acts in them herself. She has been touring Switzerland and France with her creations for ten years and founded her own company in Fribourg in 2017. She works as a co-author and director for other theatre and dance groups as well as for drama schools and circuses. In her company, Marjolaine pursues a collective and interactive creative process. She often experiments with the boundaries of genres, combines different aesthetic forms and collaborates with other artistic disciplines.

Photo: Alice das Neves

Josune Goenaga grew up in a Spanish village between lorry drivers and Rambo films. She studied acting with William Layton in Madrid and clowning with Philippe Gaulier in Paris. Manuel Schunter grew up in Munich's historic city centre between organic food shops and the Steiner School. He studied physical theatre at the Scuola Dimitri in Ticino and spoken theatre at the Bern University of the Arts. The two have been a permanent part of the ensembles of the Madame Bissegger Theatre and the Origen Festival for years. They have performed at the Stadttheater Freiburg, the LAC Lugano and under the direction of Volker Hesse. They have performed their own comedy acts at Circus Monti, Circus Roncalli and Das Zelt. The unlikely pair prefer to look for absurd humour and emotional depth in everyday situations. Now they finally want to stage their first piece of cabaret together.