Exercices de Style

Discover Exercices de Style at the Théâtre de la Traverse in Nice, a distinctive show built on textual variation.

The Théâtre de la Traverse in Nice hosts this show, which revisits the celebrated work of contemporary literature devoted to the variation of a single story. On stage, the performers explore the French language through multiple stylistic prisms, turning an ordinary anecdote into a sequence of formal variations.

This engagement will appeal to audiences drawn to the craft of language, to finely wrought writing and to theatrical forms that put the text first. The atmosphere of the auditorium lends itself to this attentive listening, where the staging brings out the musicality and rigour of the writing.

Performances of this show offer the chance to catch this original artistic proposal during its run in Nice. Audiences in the house discover a piece of performance that questions the boundaries of narration and rhetoric.