Le Premier Sexe ou la Grosse Arnaque de la Virilité

and Reine Blanche Productions LE PREMIER SEXE OR THE BIG CON OF MASCULINITY DURATION: 1h15 By Mickaël Délis Directed by Mickaël Délis and Vladimir Perrin With Mickaël Délis A man on stage, supported by various members of his family, his classmates, his therapist, his exes, his future partners, colleagues and pupils, shares the fruit of his reflection. The distilled essence of a life in seven scenes and roughly double that number of formative anecdotes, summoned to explore the vertigo of a gender and everything it entails in terms of imperatives. The author got a little carried away with this long sentence; what follows will be simpler. Promised. From childhood to adulthood, from oppression to emancipation, from abusive virility to a singular masculinity, Le Premier Sexe is a journey. And a sharing.

PRESS: “Terribly funny without being indecent, this show simply does you good and offers a salutary reflection on the deconstruction of gender stereotypes.” Sandrine Blanchard - Le Monde “Shattering, even vertiginous … Text of crazy intelligence, staging and performance of breathtaking beauty … With a rare sensitivity, accuracy and humour, Mickael Delis’s show is a revelation!” Rossana di Vincenzo - Télérama - TTTT “Exceptional, unforgettable, funny and shattering (...) Grand art for a moment of high artistic calibre. Mickaël Délis in his garden of des...délices, is irresistible. Did you say masterpiece?” Jean-Rémi Barland - La Provence - Coup de Coeur La Provence festival OFF 2023 “A funny play that tears apart so-called virility.” L’Humanité “With Le Premier Sexe ou la grosse arnaque de la virilité, Mickaël Délis offers a masterly show that will make its mark, along with an unsettling message of freedom.” Nicolas Arnstam - Toute la Culture “Borrowing the structure of Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist essay, Mickaël Délis playfully questions masculinity today.”