Theatre: Indiscipline at Studio Hébertot, Parisian premiere of a singular dramatic comedy

The theatre piece L’Indiscipline is staged at the Studio Hébertot in Paris on June 8, 10, 15 and 17, 2026, a dramatic comedy about Charcot.

On Monday the 8th, Wednesday the 10th, Monday the 15th, and Wednesday the 17th of June, join the comic and dramatic reading of the lessons that captivated all of Paris at the end of the 19th century. Between scientific demonstration and human comedy, L'Indiscipline seeks to shed light on the treacherous, intricate mechanics that bind doctors and patients, and offers fans of a strange theatre with an absurd tint a fresh, original interpretation of one of the most significant pages in modern medical history.

After runs in Avignon, London, and Prague, this dramatic comedy transports audiences to late-19th-century Paris, at the heart of Professor Jean-Martin Charcot’s famous Tuesday lectures at the Salpêtrière. The production, with English surtitles, invites theatergoers curious about historical drama, uncanny worlds, and stories where science, power, and human comedy collide.

The show, subtitled in English and celebrated in Prague, London and Avignon, arrives at the Studio Hebertot on the Boulevard des Batignolles for four must-see dates this June.

Step into late-19th-century Paris, where Jean-Martin Charcot, the rock-star neurologist, is stubbornly pursuing the brain’s deepest mysteries with methods as perplexing as they are controversial.

The story unfolds at La Salpêtrière during one of Professor Charcot’s famous Tuesday lectures. Journalists, colleagues, artists, society figures—everyone has come to see the new star, Louise Augustine Gleizes. That evening, to the doctor’s surprise and that of his devoted assistant Gilles de la Tourette, she cannot be found. A weapon has vanished, blood has been spilled, and to protect their reputations and that of the institution, they must conclude the lesson and recover the missing woman.

That’s when an unruly fugitive steps onto the stage, along with two hysterical patients, whom the authorities must confront, and who will expose the strange reality prevailing inside the institution.

Carrying audiences to the edge of reason and madness, the narrative recounts one of the most striking episodes in medical history.

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In the heart of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, characters who are deeply human come to light, carried by a live soundscape created on the fly by Nathan Saudek, a Franco-tech composer.

The experiments and events depicted in this play are drawn from historical facts collected in period documents, including transcripts by Charcot’s students of the professor’s lectures, and from contemporary works.

By invoking Charcot, La Tourette, and these women made famous as much as unseen through the medical gaze, L’indiscipline interrogates our fascination with the spectacular, the fragility of truth, and the humanity behind labels and medical realities. A show at the crossroads of history, social critique, and poetic exploration.

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The Indiscipline is performed by Fabio Goutet, Sacha Augeard, Raphael Ruiz, Clement Jarrige, and Daniela Hirsh, an international troupe from the Czech Republic and France, under the auspices of the Threepenny Collective, a British theatre and cinema production company.

L’Indiscipline is backed by the Czech Centre in Paris, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in France, the Jan Tlačbaba Foundation, the Institut Français and the Lycée Français de Prague, as well as by the Theatre company be•wilder. In France, it is co-produced by the Paris-based association Vakarme.

L'indiscipline is staged at the Studio Hebertot on June 8, 10, 15 and 17, with English surtitles.