On a vu C'est quoi le théâtre

While a week ago, 240 students from the Jean Dupuy high school went to the Parvis for The Marriage of Figaro, it was the Parvis that made the trip on Monday to present a show within the high school itself. No need to transform the lecture hall into a performance hall for What is Theatre, which starts off as a very serious lecture, with all the soporific perspective that entails. Probably too serious for the spirit of theatre, which soon invites itself to support, dismantle, and ultimately dynamite the speaker's speech. Sophocles and his Antigone, Molière and his Misanthrope, Racine and Bérénice are put into the mincer by Théodore Olivier, Quentin Quignon, and Fanny Violeau, three actors from the Laborateurs, a breeding ground for artists from the Chantiers Nomades and the Dramatic Arts section of the Toulouse Conservatory, who have imagined this theatre show about theatre. A mise en abyme that happily combines the humor of the form, the art of the stage, and the fundamental questioning of what makes the history and very essence of theater. All this in front of an audience that has loved seeing theater since kindergarten and who is about to enter a phase where they will not be very numerous to frequent theaters. Before returning later, perhaps. You only have to see the age of the audience at the Parvis or the Pari to be convinced that this Laborateurs show is more than timely, it is undoubtedly necessary. This is also what theater is about, the ability to question ourselves on the substance, by playing with forms.