“I’m doing well. I won’t say anything more. I won’t get back up.” From one day to the next, Ismaël decides to lie down next to the path near his family home and not to budge. This quiet teenager’s choice, comparable to the “I would prefer not to” uttered by Bartleby, the protagonist of Herman Melville’s short story, destabilizes his friends and family. Faced with his unshakable determination, his parents, siblings, and friends lose their bearings. Conceived by Estelle Savasta following discussions with 16-year-old high school students on the theme of disobedience, Nous, dans le désordre shows how, at the intersection of private and social life, Ismaël’s radical attitude confronts us with the unexplainable, leading us to question our relationship to others and our way of living together

Hugues Le Tanneur