Mitterrand Generation

De Léo Cohen-Paperman by Emilien Diard-Detoeuf La piece is demanding, full like a common program. Neither accusatory, nor at the service of its model. The three actors overflow with vitality and virtuosity. One would almost regain a taste for politics. Le Canard chained A frantic comedy pricked with living politics, with its share of about-faces, denials, ruses, (…) This farce has the rhythm of a vaudeville à la Feydeau. And the tragedy of a Shakespearean drama over which hovers the shadow of a death at work. Le Monde « I am going to tell you the most beautiful day of my life. It is May 10, 1981. I am 30 years old. The Place de la République is black with people. It is raining, people are soaked, but happy, and they shout in unison: “Mitterrand of the sun!” » Marie-France is a journalist in Paris, Luc is a teacher in Vénissieux, Michel is a worker in Belfort. In 1981, they voted for Mitterrand. In 2022, they voted respectively for Macron, Mélenchon and Le Pen. To understand why they no longer agree on anything and can no longer stand each other, they will take turns playing “their” President. With the story of their hopes and their disillusionments. Promises that were made to them, betrayals, failures, successes. Génération Mitterrand is episode 2 of the series Huit Rois proposed by Léo Cohen-Paperman and Emilien Diard-Detoeuf, whose ambition is to paint the theatrical portrait of the eight presidents of the Cinquième République, from Charles de Gaulle to Emmanuel Macron. Génération Mitterrand is also a portrait of the people of the left and the tragicomic autopsy of the utopias it carries. Texte Léo Cohen-Paperman and Emilien Diard-Detoeuf | Direction Léo Cohen-Paperman | Avec Léonard Bourgeois-Tacquet, Mathieu Metral and Hélène Rencurel | Lumières Pablo Roy, Stéphane Bordonaro, Léa Maris | Sound creation Lucas Lelièvre | Régie Léonard Tusseau | Scénographie Anne-Sophie Grac | Costumes Manon Naudet | Production direction Léonie Lenain | Diffusion Anne-Sophie Boulan | Administration Clara Rodrigues | Logistique Blanche Rivière | Communication and Médiation Lucile Reynaud Production Compagnie of Animaux en paradis. Coproductions Théâtre Louis Jouvet, Rethel, TCM, Théâtre de Charleville-Mézières, Espace Jean Vilar, Revin, le Salmanazar, Epernay. Le Forum Jacques Prévert – stage conventionnée de Carros, Théâtre du Train Bleu, Acmé, La Pépinière Théâtre. With the creation aid of the department of the Marne and the Région Grand Est, the diffusion aid of the Région Grand Est and with the support of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Show having benefited from the aid of the Agence culturelle Grand Est under the “Tournée de coopération” scheme, show selected and supported by the Région Grand Est and the EU-FEDER (within the framework of the Festival Off Avignon scheme).