Juste la fin du monde

Young Alsatian director Hugo Favier is passionate about this play, which has been with him for many years. With a remarkable team, he seizes on Jean-Luc Lagarce's language "as an existential tool, a poetic grenade."

After years of absence, Louis, a young author, returns. He wants to warn his mother, sister, brother and sister-in-law of his impending death: "those" who still live in the small town of his childhood. But one sometimes becomes a stranger to one's own, and the reunion is brutally groping. Voluble, the characters try with difficulty but resolutely to express their immense love, parasitized by the unspeakable social, geographical and sexual divide. Jean-Luc Lagarce died of AIDS at the age of thirty-eight.

Juste la fin du monde, both modest and political, deals with the disease in the negative, without ever naming it. This creation, marked by Hugo Favier's career, artistic encounters and familiarity with Belgian theater, invites us into a carnal encounter with theatrical writing. Between muteness and unabashed lyricism, we witness a shattering and illusory attempt, the quest for a hold on reality with words.