Tendre feu - Boys don't cry

Romain David, co-founder of Nimis Groupe and the Raoul collective, is accustomed to musical and joyful forms. Avec Tendre feu – Boys don’t cry, he tackles the burning question of male domination, to offer us a show inspired by cabaret, a universe as festive as it is political given the themes addressed. Six young actors dance and sing live, successively bringing out figures who explore the mechanisms of patriarchal violence. Starting from his own experience, that of a child educated “like a little boy,” with all the associated injunctions, Romain David proposed a collective research project to his troupe of young actors, fresh out of ESACT. By mixing conversations, theoretical readings, and personal writings, Tendre feu – Boys don’t cry is an abundant and radical cabaret that borrows its vitality from poems, essays, and interviews, carried by bodies in struggle, full of vitality. Theater here is a space of reaffirmation and invention, where we seize what oppresses us to better turn it around, distort it, in a carnivalesque and explosive momentum. The show is directed toward the public, proposing a collective restorative gesture, a utopia of transformation from which everyone would emerge lighter.