Audience with Václav Havel
by The Theatre next door. With Vincent Balembois and Jean-Marc Urbaniak Collective staging A modest brewer offers an amazing market to one of his workers, a writer who is monitored and censored. The alienation that strikes both characters, lost in the midst of the constraints of an authoritarian system, takes on a universal dimension and then reveals the complexity of all the paradoxical facets of the individual when his existence is threatened. In this closed room with a squeaky humor, the tearing between the two men, which everything opposes, calls out and disturbs: the spectator oscillates between innocent observation and moral complicity in this humanist tragedy, where freedom is "at stake"...