Exit the King

"To me, every man is a kind of king of the universe. The universe belongs to him until the moment everything collapses," declared Eugène Ionesco, a major representative of the theater of the absurd, about this play written in 1962 and which has become a great classic of 20th-century theater. Revisited by Jean Lambert-wild and his double the clown Gramblanc, the agony of King Bérenger Ier surrounded by his court is anchored in an old-fashioned circus, between grotesque make-up, top hats, petticoats, and stilts. Denial, revolt, anger, fear, nostalgia, and resignation follow one another in a disturbing fable on our inevitable mortality. Texte Eugène Ionesco | Direction Jean Lambert-wild | Artistic collaboration Catherine Lefeuvre | Scénographie Jean Lambert-wild and Gaël Lefeuvre | Costumier Pierre-Yves Loup-Forest | Light creation Marc Laperrouze | General management Peter-André Lhotte, Vincent Desprez | Stage management Peter-André Lhotte | Sound management Titouan Coutanceau | Light management Dorian André | Interprètes Jean Lambert-wild (Le Roi Bérenger 1st), Odile Sankara (Marguerite (queen and first wife)), Nina Fabiani (Marie (queen and second wife)), Vincent Abalain (The doctor (surgeon, bacteriologist, executioner and astrologer)), Aimée Lambert-wild (Juliette (housekeeper, nurse, cook and gardener)), Vincent Desprez (The guard), little pig Pompon.