Génération Mitterand

Once upon a time, they were friends, or thought they were. Steelworkers, proletarians, intellectuals, all socialists, militants of the party of youth and hope personified by François Mitterrand. Marie-France, a journalist from Paris, Luc, a teacher from Vénissieux and Michel, a worker from Belfort, each embody the left-wing people who were so proud of the promises and renunciations of a president who was going to change life. Allô Tonton, pourquoi tu couses?

After La vie et la mort de Jacques Chirac, roi des Français, performed at TAPS in 2024, Léo Cohen-Paperman continues his saga of the Eight kings (our presidents). A tragi-comic autopsy of a disenchanted generation, dissected with humor and ferocity by three actors deploying a pleiad of corrosive characters in the service of the "last of the great presidents".