Ne T'Arrête Pas de Courir

Presented by ATELIER THÉÂTRE ACTUEL / FIVA PRODUCTION / LA BONNE INTENTION / RSC P / SANDRA GHENASSIA PRODUCTIONS / TCHOLÉLÉ THÉÂTRES / CINAPARTÉ.

NE T’ARRÊTE PAS DE COURIR By Johanna BOYÉ and Thibaud HOUDINIÈRE Based on Ne t’arrête pas de courir by Mathieu PALAIN Directed by: Tristan Petitgirard With Loup-Denis Elion, Chloé Froget, Kamel Isker, Marie Mahé, Ike Zacsongo-Joseph and Sara Zinger Based on a true story and Mathieu Palain’s novel (Prix Interallié).

Carried by a nervous staging and intense physical energy, this breathtaking adaptation brings to life an extraordinary destiny, between hope, fall, and resistance. Toumany Coulibaly runs. Fast. Very fast. On the track, he racks up performances and dreams of the Olympic Games.

But outside the stadium, another, darker, riskier race begins: the one that leads him to rob pharmacies and loot stores. Two irreconcilable trajectories collide. That of an athlete destined for excellence and that of a man caught in the grip of addiction.

How far can one run before falling? Winner by day, thief by night. Toumany Coulibaly could have been an Olympic champion. A 400-meter specialist, he breaks records and dreams of representing France at the Rio Games.

But at night, he robs pharmacies and stores… Two lives collide: that of one of the best French athletes destined for glory and that of a compulsive thief, caught in the spiral of addiction.

Mathieu Palain, a journalist, decides to tell his story and meets him in prison: how can the same life contain both the light of stadiums and the shadow of visiting rooms?

Over the course of their interviews, a fraternal relationship develops between the journalist and the athlete, made of trust, betrayals, and revelations. ” Tristan Petitgirard The adaptation of an award-winning book