L’Abolition des privilèges

One actor, ten characters and a key episode in the French Revolution, all in 1 hour 15 minutes: who could do better? In an intimate yet dynamic setting, Hugues Duchêne brings to life the night of August 4, 1789, when feudal rights were swept away. Live history, experienced from the inside, with hilarious incursions of 21st-century subjects.

Hugues Duchêne goes back in time for a "sprint" to the climax of the Revolution. Revolt, famine, conspiracy: what led up to that night when the nobility lost its advantages? How were these moments of precipitous social change brought about? Arranged in a forum around a narrator-interpreter, the audience is at the heart of the story as if they could touch it - as if it were today.