La Vie Est Une Fête

Winners of their first Molière - Best Public Theatre Show - awarded in 2026 for I Will Survive, Les Chiens de Navarre are reviving La vie est une fête, which has been warmly acclaimed on tour and in Paris since its creation in 2022, for an event series of 30 dates at the Théâtre de l'Atelier. Les Chiens de Navarre continue its exploration of reality, this time moving into a very different territory: psychiatric emergency services. Raw, biting and running through with a wild tenderness, La vie est une fête draws us into a contemporary world in imbalance, where we waver as much as we laugh and from which we do not emerge intact.

"Certainly, we suffer because of Daddy and Mummy (not everyone can be an orphan), but we also suffer because of the state of the world. We are inevitably porous to violence, crises, political and social incoherence, and the brutal transformations of our civilisation. The micro-follies of our century can give rise to the macro-follies of a person, and the need for consolation can then quickly become impossible to satisfy, as our good old Dagerman would say. Could we all go mad? What stops us from acting on it? There is nothing more human than madness. The psychiatric emergency department is one of the rare places that receives anyone at any hour, without exception of age, sex or country. A place of life that is extremely tangible for a road accident. A airlock of humanity."Jean-Christophe Meurisse

WARNING TO THE AUDIENCE

So that everyone can attend the show with full awareness, we inform you that the show is not recommended for under-15s. Reservations for people with reduced mobility on 01 46 06 49 24