Nov 08Nov 18, 2023
THE SENIOR PROFESSORS
Christophe Honoré • Comité dans Paris
TWO MEN ARE SPEAKERS AT A CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION. THE AUDIENCE IS ENTIRELY COMPRISED OF CHILDREN. WILL THEY BE WELL BEHAVED AND REMAIN SEATED?
The atmosphere is solemn, impressive. It is an the amphitheater where rules mean authority imposed from above. Two senior professors, the “Doyens” signifying the world of adults, are presenting a lecture on children, on how to raise and educate them. Self-confident and perched on the pedestal of their erudition, they are masters of the art of spin, happy to distort and dissect matters, asserting untruths as truths. These two fellows will sprinkle a few notes and references here and there to provoke or merely for the fun of it, citing anyone and everyone: Rabelais, Montaigne, Descartes and even Laurence Pernoud, the author of childcare books. But there are only children in the audience. How much longer will they keep on listening without reacting to this pretentious poppycock?
Comité dans Paris
Texte, conception & mise en scène
Christophe Honoré
Text, original idea & direction Christophe Honoré
Scenography Thibaut Fack
Lighting design Mogan Daniel
Assistant to director Christèle Ortu
Sound design Jean-Baptiste de Tonquedec
Assistant for dramaturgy Alexandre Cordier
Costumes Oriol Nogues
With Julien Honoré, Jean-Charles Clichet...
PRODUCTION Comité dans Paris – Comédie de Reims, centre dramatique national. COPRODUCTION Théâtre de la Ville- Paris – Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne – Le Volcan, scène nationale du Havre – MA scène nationale - Pays de Montbéliard. WITH THE ARTISTIC PARTICIPATION OF Jeune Théâtre National. WITH SUPPORT FOR RESIDENCY FROM Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – Le Volcan, scène nationale du Havre – Cromot, Maison d’artistes et de production. Le Comité dans Paris has a subsidy agreement with DRAC Île-de-France-Ministry of Culture.
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