Juste la fin du monde

Juste la fin du monde is the second installment of Théâtres à la table, an original program of shows captured and broadcast on Comédie d'automne, the WebTV launched by Éric Ruf in early November 2020, when theaters were closed to the public.

In entrusting the artistic direction of this play - which entered the Répertoire in 2008 - to Hervé Pierre, the director was choosing one of the author's close friends. For the actor - a member of the Troupe from 2011 to 2022 - was part of the Théâtre de la Roulotte adventure, founded by Jean-Luc Lagarce in 1977.

"Jean-Luc Lagarce allowed himself the luxury of writing to compensate for our powerlessness to write our lives. We'd like to be able to control events, to remain masters of our destinies, to give ourselves the beautiful role and stage family affairs before leaving. But nothing ever turns out the way we'd like. In Juste la fin du monde, he unfolds, with malice, the difficulty of being only a spectator of this huis clos, of which he had hoped to be the director.

Jean-Luc touches all generations and for a long time to come by the lucidity with which he writes the graceful gesture of his departure, of our departure, of our impotences." (Hervé Pierre, January 2023)