Avignon Festival | The lesson: joyful, cheeky and crazy
Totally improbable text, made of breaks in tone, with a surreal universe turning to the fantastic, “The lesson” by Ionesco is a long series of apparent inconsistencies brought face to face by a teacher and his young pupil. Taken here, and it reinforces the fun of the project by three men (exit the young girl) we discover Edouard Dossetto, in the guise of the professor, Pablo Chevalier, alternating with Cédric Daniélo (the impressive narrator of “Bartleby”) in the role of the student, (they are both brilliant), to which is added, playing the maid, Josselin Girard (unforgettable in “De Profundis”).
Do not look for too much logic in the course given by an authoritarian, peremptory teacher, unbearable of vanity, very little pedagogue moreover who benevolently ecstatic at the simplest answers given by his student. The important thing is elsewhere. In the art of shaking words in all directions and for the author to denounce the exorbitant power of a tyrannical teacher. If the knee of the hero of “Therapy” by David Lodge by making it suffer the fire from the powder (sublime novel unrelated to the play if not its climate), at Ionesco it is the painful teeth of the student who will be undoubtedly at the origin of an unexpected epilogue. Virtuoso actors, directed by Bruno Dairou from the same barrel, where stools of different colors mark the stages of an outrage in preparation, here is revisited in a prosperous and crazy way the myth of the master and the slave.
The lesson, at L’Albatros theater at 2:50 p.m.
Until July 30
Price: €20, subscriber €14, child – 12 years €10
Reservations: 04 90 86 11 33 or 04 90 85 23 23