Christophe Alévêque : L'Affaire Benalla

Christophe Alévêque returns, of course, ten times, on Sundays, throughout the 2018-19 season, at the Théâtre du Rond-Point. A show by and with Christophe Alévêque. Stage management: Francky Mermillod. Produced by ALACA Production, co-produced by Théâtre du Rond-Point. Video recording and direction: Gianluca Matarrese. He always comes back, he always comes back, getting tangled up again in his mess of papers: articles, arguments, and notes. He takes matters into his own hands, he attacks: the elections, European or otherwise, current events, the crisis of confidence, the divided right and left, the current and evolving government, the debt, organic food and the bourgeois bohemians, the sound bites of some, the vast fortunes of others, and the place of women in all of this. He digs, finds golden topics, shakes them up, and challenges the impunity of those in power and the manipulators of information. Laughing at everything, having the right to do so, and keeping it. Because it's necessary, political. It's always been his project and his credo. Christophe Alévêque was Super Rebel! in 2009. He sang about the absurdities of an ultraliberal society in Les Monstrueuses Actualités (The Monstrous News) in 2011, then he transformed the Rond-Point theater into a presidential campaign headquarters with his super rebel candidate in 2012. In Ça ira mieux demain (It Will Be Better Tomorrow), he returned in 2015 to set the stage ablaze with his outspokenness, his insolence, and his sagacity: the advances of the National Front, gender parity, inequalities, the grim repetitions of history... Last season, he presented his "press reviews." A great success, he's back again. A committed, unconventional, and unconventional comedian, whether as a ridiculous clown or a missionary, he dissects current events and what the press says about them: he presents his "review," updated every night. He tears the world apart, without a bulletproof vest. "To have fun, together, with our lives," he says, "in an impromptu group therapy session." Pierre Notte