With Qu'il fait beau cela vous suffit, authors and directors Mélanie Charvy and Millie Duyé plunge spectators into the daily life of a school under stress. Scheduled to run from May 19 to 24, 2025 at the Théâtre Paris-Villette, this new production will showcase a school on the brink of collapse, through the eyes of students and adults confronted with wear and tear, the limits of the system and their own contradictions. Anchored in social realism, the play offers an immersion in institutional mechanisms, fragile human relationships and survival strategies, between anger, hope and resourcefulness.
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At the heart of this fiction, we follow Aleksander, a teenager at odds with the adult world and his native language. At the same time, Violette, a new CPE full of disciplinary ideals, tries to impose rules to restore order. Jean, an experienced physics and chemistry teacher, would finally crack after yet another altercation. Julie, an inventive French teacher, struggles to maintain a bond with her students.
Each character would embody a facet of the educational institution: confrontation, hope, wear and tear or permanent adaptation. In this way, the play paints a collective portrait of a school under pressure, where the stakes go beyond the classroom.
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This show is aimed at adults and teenagers who are sensitive to questions of education, authority and transmission. It could appeal as much to teaching professionals as to families or young adults who have experienced troubled school careers. The chosen approach, combining choral narrative, documentary proximity and embodied dialogues, would place this work in the tradition of committed, down-to-earth shows such as those by Lazare, Nina Guhl or Emmanuelle Hiron. On the other hand, audiences looking for a more symbolic, light-hearted form of theater, or one based on pure fiction, may find this type of dramaturgy, rooted in raw, everyday social reality, less appealing.
With Qu'il fait beau cela vous suffit, the Théâtre Paris-Villette welcomes a committed and lucid creation about the education system. Through choral writing, the show offers a glimpse into a school in crisis, but also into individual and collective attempts to keep alive the promise of a shared future.
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