
Michelle doit-on t'en vouloir d'avoir fait un selfie à Auschwitz ?
Who is Michelle? Or rather: who is aviedechat? A carefree or ill-bred teenager? Here we witness the confrontation of two worlds: that of the "old", who watch the landscape go by, and that of the young, who are quick to box up this beautiful scenery with their fully-equipped, ultra-connected smartphones. Kim, Angèle, Michelle, Sélim and Abel belong to this new world. And it's the old world they've come to visit by going to Auschwitz to discover the horror of the concentration camps, a harsh, cold memory that won't, however, resist Michelle's smile and the release of her camera...
Has she fulfilled her duty of remembrance by taking this selfie? Has she sullied the past by posing in front of the remains of the Shoah? Opinions diverge on social networks, comments fly, and the Web closes in on Michelle, virtual prisoner of cruel digital harassment. The screen becomes the point of confluence between reality and image, redrawing our space for speech and freedom.
With this choral play inspired by a true story, Sylvain Levey leaves us free to look at - and judge - the society we've built around appearances. Thanks to a dramaturgy that plays on the immediacy of the Internet, he dismantles the mechanism of virtual hype, which borders on harassment.