La Leçon

A lesson you won't soon forget!

An all-powerful teacher (Julien Derouault) reigns over his students. In a classroom revisited as a dance studio, we attend a lesson given by an overexcited Louis de Funes teaching anything and everything: dance, arithmetic, philology or linguistics. He quickly takes control of his students, but eventually loses his own.

A new student who dreams of dance and knowledge is quickly swept up by the group. She will learn the hard way that knowledge is a weapon she will never possess.

Will the teacher and his conniving assistant succeed in hiding their secrets for very long?

Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Julien Derouault explore the absurd, language and its power to control. "La leçon" is a masterful dance and theatrical adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's cult play.

A modern, electric staging in which the expression "Theatre of the Body" takes on its full meaning.