Juste la fin du monde

Reweaving the links Louis, the eldest son returns to announce his impending death. He is both the play's hero and its narrator. We're in the countryside, in the house of the Mother and Suzanne, his little sister. His brother and his wife are there too. The huis clos can begin. The theme is dark, but the author's life-saving humor springs to life at every turn, making us live and share a story that could be our own.
No naturalism here, Louis speaks to us, he is both storyteller and actor. Jean-Luc Lagarce has written a play that constantly raises the question of theatricality and representation. The characters in the play are never unaware that the audience is there. The audience is the play's actor.
Questioning that strange animal, the family. The family is our common lot in life. The audience is linked to the actors, since we all have families. At worst, we've all had one. No family can rest easy. All families share trials, pains, silences, denials, secrets, tensions, conflicts, dramas.
The strength of Jean-luc Lagarce's writing is to tackle this painful theme and laugh about it.

Serge Lipszyc