It's not easy to be happy when you're feeling down
Wed, 16 Sept 2026 · 20:15
Théâtre Royal des Galeries, Brussels
€26–32
2024 Molière for Best Comedy and Best Francophone Author
Jonathan is a therapist who is doing even worse than his patients. Nora is very close to a nervous breakdown. Jeanne does not understand why she has cancer when she does yoga and eats organic. Maxime is ready for (absolutely) anything to meet the man of his life but in the meantime, he is bored at the Grand Palais counter. Timotée writes speeches for a deputy but flees commitments.
Everyone puts on a brave face, smiles, or rages, but everyone is in search of happiness...
A hilarious comedy, the play paints a portrait of forty-somethings at the end of their rope, magnificent losers whose egos clash in a ballet of biting lines. Everything is covered: lost illusions, existential anxieties, love that fades, the cowardice of everyday life... It flies, it stings, and it is profoundly human.
With his delicious humor, Rudy Milstein goes in search of happiness and stimulates the zygomatic muscles.