After Je m'en vais mais l'État demeure, Hugues Duchêne adapts Bertrand Guillot's historical novel L'abolition des privilèges.
This virtuoso solo performance by Maxime Pambet plunges the audience right into the heart of the Estates General of 1789. It's a state in chronic deficit, where the wealthiest escape taxation. A regime on its last legs. A people at the end of their tether, clamoring for justice but seeing nothing coming. A rich but stalled country, prey to the vagaries of a deregulated climate. Such was France in the summer of 1789. Until one night, in Versailles, everything changed. It was the Night of August 4.
Performed in a quadrifrontal space by an actor embodying a dozen characters, L'abolition des privilèges is a sprint that gives the feeling that history has suddenly accelerated.
How to get there ?