L'affaire Dussaert

Author: Jacques Mougenot Director: Jacques Mougenot Cast: Jacques Mougenot Duration: 1h20 How far can art go too far?

Author: Jacques Mougenot

Director: Jacques Mougenot

Cast: Jacques Mougenot

Duration: 1h20

How far can art go too far? Between satire and comedy, an unexpected, funny, corrosive... and culturally incorrect show. The controversy sparked by the public sale of the last work by visual artist Philippe Dussaert (1947-1989) gives Jacques Mougenot the opportunity to intelligently and humorously address the theme of contemporary art and to highlight the excesses of its market. Already over 800 performances.

Dax Humour Festival Prize – 2007

Philippe Avron Prize – Avignon Festival 2011

Humour Show Prize - Rio de Janeiro 2017

Press excerpts:

He deciphers the work like a specialist with all the tics of lecturers, their asides, their digressions, their solemnity. Because Jacques Mougenot has a lot of talent. And a fertile imagination. In short, his show is very good. And his humour truly invigorating. (Jean-Luc Jeener) Le Figaro

And for all those who think that theatre is full of surprises and also, that it is the place where the pleasure of the actor and of seeing an actor is brought to its peak, I really recommend going to see “L'affaire Dussaert” by and with Jacques Mougenot. (Philippe Meyer) France Culture

Ironic, intelligent and comical… This play written and performed by Jacques Mougenot is a subtle monologue on the meaning of contemporary art. From twist to twist, the spectator is transported by this one-voice concerto, played across the innumerable registers of theatre. (Jannick Alimi) Le Parisien

Jacques Mougenot casts, as if without touching it, an exceptionally intelligent and cruelly lucid gaze on the postmodernist scam of thought. (Bernard Thomas) Le Canard Enchaîné

Caustic author and actor, Jacques Mougenot transforms into a lecturer to evoke a forgotten scandal. A very piquant anecdote. (Jacques Nerson) Le Nouvel Observateur

L’Affaire Dussaert is a clever theatrical coup.