Theatre: The Abolition of Privileges

1, place Gisèle Halimi, Espace d'Albret

Adapted from the historical and well-documented novel by Bertrand Guillot, this virtuoso performance blends a taut narrative, politics and History to tell how, in a few hours, centuries of inequality waver. The abolition of privileges takes us to the heart of the night of August 4, 1789. A chronically deficit State where the wealthiest escape taxes. A people on edge, clamoring for justice and seeing nothing coming. A regime at the end of its tether. This is France in the summer of 1789. In one night, at Versailles, everything will shift on its head. On stage, a actor, ten characters embodied…