Juste la fin du monde

This family story could be our own. A succession of botched appointments that both upset and make you laugh!

Louis returns to his family for the first time in years. It's a reunion with the family circle. He intends to tell them of his illness and impending, irremediable death, but his arrival brings back memories and family tensions. From this visit, which he had intended to be definitive, he leaves without saying a word, even more solitary in the face of death. As is often the case in Jean-Luc Lagarce's texts, it's all about love, washed-up memories and settling scores. It's time to take stock: to retrace one's steps, to retrace one's footsteps, to take stock of one's feelings and one's life in an attempt to mourn, and all this before oblivion, before death.
Juste la fin du monde is the first part of a trilogy written in 1990, when Jean-Luc Lagarce knew he had AIDS. But there's no complacency, no bitterness. No morbidity. It is always life, however derisory, that is praised as a gift of self to those who survive. The play's first title, "Quelques éclaircies", is also to be reckoned with.
A theater of the intimate, directed by Olivier Broda of Théâtre du Temps Pluriel.