Mourir d'Aimer

MOURIR D'AIMER, les Amants Maudits de Mai 68On 15 February 2027, the Théâtre du Gymnase hosts the Paris date of Mourir d'Aimer, les Amants Maudits de Mai 68, a vibrant and poignant musical fresco directed by Grégory Fostier. Marseille, late 1960s. Amid the ferment and the first stirrings of May 68, Pierre and his classmates meet Emma Lefèbvre, their new French teacher. Brilliant, passionate and resolutely progressive, she passes on to her pupils a taste for freedom and emancipation. At the heart of the student revolt and the barricades, a passionate idyll flares up between Emma and Pierre. But in a society hemmed in by morality and convention, this relationship, which defies the established order, provokes outrage. Denounced to the courts, their story slides into a relentless spiral of judicial and family proceedings. How far can love hold out against prohibition? Loosely inspired by a real event that moved the whole of France, Mourir d'Aimer brings 16 performers together on stage for a heartbreaking drama in which love defies censorship, imprisonment and the judgement of men. Carried by an eclectic score heightened by the unmissable eponymous masterpiece of Charles Aznavour, a spare staging and a company of multitalented performers, this grand musical production is a vibrant hymn to emancipation and to Liberty.

Monday, 15 February 2027 Theatre du Gymnase Paris 10e from €23