Juste la fin du monde

After twelve years' absence, Louis returns to his family to announce his "imminent and irremediable death" from an illness that is never named. Throughout this Sunday with the family, one indictment after another is made by those closest to him against the prodigal son who has become almost a stranger.

The ambition of this staging of Lagarce's text will be to highlight the impossibility of ignoring Louis' illness, which invalidates the issue of confession, and, from then on, will question the relationship of family members to this disease that is so taboo that we cannot talk about it, even when a close relative will soon be a victim. Other issues that run through the play will then come into play, notably the confrontation of two models of masculinity (Antoine and Louis), intergenerational relationships (the mother on the one hand, Catherine and Suzanne on the other), the symbolic and social violence in relations between Louis and the rest of his family, and the window that this play provides onto an often-invisibilized social world, that of working-class families in post-industrial France in the 1980s and 1990s.