“So much hope!”: an uncompromising show about human failings
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David Migeot, Valérie Lesort and Charly Voodoo in What Hope! directed by Valérie Lesort, at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, in Paris on April 19, 2025. Fabrice Robin / THEATRE DE L'ATELIER
With dark humor and costumes as improbable as they are unforgettable, Valérie Lesort brings to the stage of the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris a selection of texts with a sharp tone by the Israeli playwright Hanokh Levin.
And three for Valérie Lesort. After the play Les Sœurs Hilton in October 2024, then the operetta Les Contes de Perrault last April, the director presents her third creation of the season, Que d'espoir!, and is tackling a new register: theatrical cabaret. Que d'espoir! is a collection of several texts by the Israeli playwright Hanokh Levin. His uncompromising tone and his biting, often even crude, humor depict human failings without embellishment, exploring to the point of indecency the wickedness, naivety or stupidity that man can display.
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