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Edinburgh Fringe: Marcel Lucont/ Primadoona/ Phil Nichol
Edinburgh Fringe: Marcel Lucont/ Primadoona/ Phil Nichol
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Marcel Lucont: looks like the love child of Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge Gainsbourg
Marcel Lucont, “France’s greatest misanthropic lover”, comes on stage looking like the love child of Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge Gainsbourg - in head-to-toe black, sporting manly stubble and clutching a bottle of vin rouge. Is he an ethnic stereotype, or is he the alter ego of Alexis Dubus from Buckinghamshire, who happens to speak perfect French?
Marcel Lucont, “France’s greatest misanthropic lover”, comes on stage looking like the love child of Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge Gainsbourg - in head-to-toe black, sporting manly stubble and clutching a bottle of vin rouge. Is he an ethnic stereotype, or is he the alter ego of Alexis Dubus from Buckinghamshire, who happens to speak perfect French?
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