Drôle de Justice: judicial vaudeville at the Théâtre de Passy

Discover "Drôle de Justice," a judicial vaudeville by Jean-Marie Rouart directed by Daniel Colas, at the Théâtre de Passy from October 8, 2025, to January 4, 2026.

Starting in October 2025,the Théâtre de Passy will present Drôle de Justice, a comedy by Jean-Marie Rouart, member ofthe Académie française. The author takes an interest in the behind-the-scenes world of the judiciary, imagining a vaudeville in which truth occupies the place traditionally reserved for the hidden lover. The text features a senior magistrate who reveals the intimate motivations and human contradictions behind the solemnity of robes, ermine, and institutional emblems. The play thus confronts the official representations of justice with the daily reality of those who bring it to life.

Daniel Colas's staging explores the gap between judicial pomp and the characters' domestic or professional situations. The stage design plays on the codes of vaudeville—slamming doors, misunderstandings, successive revelations—transposed into a setting evoking the symbolic space of the courts. This approach accentuates the contrasts between legal authority and human frailty, while offering a fast pace characteristic of the genre. The show highlights the comic potential of this contrast between solemnity and everyday life.

The cast includes Daniel Russo and Florence Darel, accompanied by Thibaut de Lussy, Baptiste Gonthier, Julie Savard, and Eliott Cren. The ensemble highlights a gallery of characters with intertwined relationships, allowing the audience to explore different facets of the judicial world through writing that relies on lively exchanges and a series of situations. The actors embody the professional and private figures who gravitate around the magistrate, bringing a collective dimension to the vaudeville imagined by Jean-Marie Rouart.

Part of the 2025-2026 theater season, Drôle de Justice follows in the tradition of French vaudeville while tackling a world rarely represented from this angle. The play offers an accessible reflection on the public perception of justice, while playing on the humor and comic elements of the genre. By placing truth at the center of the plot, the show offers a distanced and playful observation of institutions and those who embody them on the Parisian stage.

Drôle de Justice can be seen at the Théâtre de Passy until January 4, 2026.

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