L'abolition des privilèges

After Je m'en vais mais l'État demeure, Hugues Duchêne adapts Bertrand Guillot's historical novel L'abolition des privilèges.

This virtuoso solo performance by Maxime Pambet plunges the audience right into the heart of the Estates General of 1789. It's a state in chronic deficit, where the wealthiest escape taxation. A regime on its last legs. A people at the end of their tether, clamoring for justice but seeing nothing coming. A rich but stalled country, prey to the vagaries of a deregulated climate. Such was France in the summer of 1789. Until one night, in Versailles, everything changed. It was the Night of August 4.

Performed in a quadrifrontal space by an actor embodying a dozen characters, L'abolition des privilèges is a sprint that gives the feeling that history has suddenly accelerated.

Cast and production
text after L'Abolition des privilèges, Bertrand Guillot © Groupe Delcourt, Les Avrils - 2022
adaptation and direction Hugues Duchêne
sound and lighting Jérémie Dubois, alternating with Thomas Le Hetet and Léo Delorme
artistic collaboration and video creation Pierre Martin Oriol
voice-over Lisa Hours
set design Julie Camus
stage manager Jérémie Dubois
creative team Hugues Duchêne, Maxime Pambet and Jérémie Dubois
production and administration Les singulières - Léa Serror

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