Merci de Votre Collaboration

By Lola Lafon© Les Solitaires intempestifs Directed by Emmanuel Noblet With Solal Bouloudnine, Servane Ducorps, Elsa Guedj, Zita Hanrot, Olivia Jubin, Eszter Tompa and the participation of the JTN (Jeune Théâtre National) Running time: 1h30

Lola Lafon moves from the novel to the stage with her very first play, Merci de votre collaboration, published by Les Solitaires intempestifs. An unprecedented step, for which she entrusts the direction to Emmanuel Noblet, a director devoted to contemporary writing.

Word for word

At the airport, a group of friends is about to set off on holiday; one of their suitcases, too large, is refused by the air hostess. The incident is trivial, but tempers rise and a brutal word hurled at the airline employee sparks discord, an intimate and political disagreement: what do the words that escape us reveal, the ones we no longer weigh? Are these friends still friends? Outside the airport, the world, our world, becomes a mirror: we also clash there over words, we speak without dialoguing, a crowd of "I"s longing to form a "we" without succeeding…

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