Les Règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne

"A hilarious lesson in manners"

At the origin of this show, two artists fell in love with this monologue by Jean-Luc Lagarce, inspired by a book of good manners written by a German baroness to deal with all life's situations (birth, marriage, death...). This caustic playwright had deliberately kept the title, turns of phrase and phrasing of the book, diverting it from its original use. Frédérique Wolf-Michaux has chosen to make this infectiously funny play her own, seeing it as "a veritable jubilant score for the actress". And to help us discover all its subtleties, she is staging it with two voices. With Dalila Khatir, a singer and actress like herself, she creates a kind of two-headed character who declaims and sings the text, at times in unison, at other times with a difference. And it's jubilant indeed!