L'affaire Dussaert

Author: Jacques Mougenot Director: Jacques Mougenot Cast: Jacques Mougenot Running time: 1h20 How far can art go too far? Part satire, part comedy, this unexpected show is funny, corrosive... and culturally incorrect.

The controversy surrounding the public sale of the last work by visual artist Philippe Dussaert (1947-1989) gives Jacques Mougenot the chance to tackle the theme of contemporary art with intelligence and humour, and to expose the excesses of its market.

Already more than 800 performances.

Prize of the Festival d'humour - Dax 2007 Prix Philippe Avron - Festival d'Avignon 2011 Prize for comedy show - Rio de Janeiro 2017 Press extracts: He deciphers the work like a specialist, with all the tics of lecturers, their asides, their digressions, their solemnity.

For Jacques Mougenot has a great deal of talent. And a fertile imagination. In short, his show is very good. And his humour is truly invigorating.

(Jean-Luc Jeener) Le Figaro And for all those who think that theatre means plenty of surprises, and that it is also the place where the pleasure of the actor, and of watching an actor, reaches its peak, I strongly recommend going to see "L'affaire Dussaert" by and with Jacques Mougenot.

(Philippe Meyer) France Culture Ironic, intelligent and comic... This play, written and performed by Jacques Mougenot, is a subtle monologue on the meaning of contemporary art.

Twist after twist, the spectator is carried away by this one-voiced concerto, played across the countless registers of theatre.

(Jannick Alimi) Le Parisien Jacques Mougenot casts, as if without touching it, an exceptional gaze of intelligence and cruel lucidity on the postmodernist confidence trick of thought.

(Bernard Thomas) Le Canard Enchaîné Biting author and actor Jacques Mougenot turns lecturer to evoke a forgotten scandal. A very piquant anecdote.