THEATRICAL CONFERENCE - BAD GIRLS

41 Avenue Claude Bernard

The “bad girls” are invisible in history. Perceived as “lost girls” in the 19th century, confined to reformatories, these adolescents later become “rebels” under the gaze of juvenile justice in the 20th century. Supported by unpublished archives, the evening, part university lecture and part theatrical performance, aims to restore faces and voices to these dissidents. The evening, between scholars’ talks and dramatized readings, unfolds in three acts: • The time of the lost girls, from the 1840s to World War I. • The time of the fi…