François Hien

Inspired by real events, Le Signalement puts a school unlike any other to the test with accusations of harassment. Expansive and choral, the play draws on the contributions of the amateur performers it brings together in each city.

A few tables, some chairs and a blackboard: the set is familiar, but the setting is less so, a self-managed secondary school where pupils and teachers make every decision together through consultation.

This fine human and educational experiment is threatened by accusations of sexual harassment made against a teacher.

Between a false witness and a real victim, the collective is torn over how to respond, just as the rectorat threatens not to renew the agreement linking the school to the Éducation nationale.

As he did with La Crèche: mécanique d'un conflit, presented in 2025 at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, where he is artist in residence, François Hien draws on a real event while involving the performers in the writing process.

The teenagers and adults who took part in workshops held at the CENTQUATRE beforehand colour the story with their own reflections and experiences.

With this show, questions of circulation and of giving voice to others are put into play, as is the way two generations weigh up their political commitment and their utopias.