Du Luxe et de l'impuissance

Continuing to make theater, to make society, in an age that sometimes seems to want to do without it

To stage Jean-Luc Lagarce's Du luxe et de l'impuissance today is to affirm, forcefully, the vital necessity of art, free speech and critical thought.

This text, at once intimate and deeply political, resonates with particular acuity in our times marked by the erosion of resources allocated to artistic creation, the casualization of artists' status and the endangerment of cultural diversity.

With an aesthetic devoid of embellishments, this urgency to say questions poetry, solitude, exaltation, the vanity of our endeavors, and the march of the world. A theatrical interpretation that restores the impetus because, even if it's all beyond us, it's all illuminating.