Cancelled event
Replacement of a colleague: on paper, Mr Lazhar’s job objective is clear but, in this primary class, the taking of office of a temporary worker takes on a completely different dimension. Unlike a less exposed job, it is necessary to get to know each other, to tame each other, to help each other with young students all different. Above all, you must know how to dominate yourself without letting your own faults pierce through…
Bashir Lazhar, played by Thomas Drelon, will have to manage to create this attachment so particular from the teacher/ student relationship: not easy every day to transmit confidence and exemplarity when you are yourself a little stuck, out of step and full of defects. This unusual teacher lives with a heavy past and behind his appearance hide wounds: those of a deeply sensitive and fragile man, so little (in his place) in his time. One thing is certain, he needs support similar to that expected by his students. But that, nobody knows.
The piece is presented in the form of a mosaic. They talk about war and pencil sharpening, love and childhood, migration and transmission, justice and dictation, teaching and playground… so to really take us into the story of Bashir Lazhar, the staging of Thomas Coste is very subtle, in a double motivation: that of not losing the audience in different places but also to better decipher the past of this atypical teacher.
In short, prepare to be touched by this ode to the courage it takes to live. Gently and humorously, let yourself be captured during these Beautiful Outings by the emotion of a resolutely endearing character.
Texts: Evelyne de la Chenélière - Published by Éditions Théâtrales
Directed by: Thomas Coste
With: Thomas Drelon
Lights: Patrick Touzard
Duration: 1h20 without intermission
From 11 years old