Léviathan

From the courtroom to the visiting room, from the defendants' box to the prison reception desk, Guillaume Poix dives to the heart of the immediate appearance procedure. This French exception is unanimously decried by lawyers and magistrates alike for its expeditious nature. With precision and intelligence, the author reveals how the judicial machine turns into a steamroller in the face of overwhelmed citizens. The text also evokes alternatives - restorative devices, animal mediation - which attempt to give justice a less repressive face.

Written for Lorraine de Sagazan's show, the fragments collected here are so many short plays about trials or about justice, inhabited by a very dense gallery of characters, offering numerous possibilities for recombination and play.