Theater: the abolition of privileges

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By Cie Le Royal Velours, for ages 14 and up, based on L’Abolition des Privileges by Bertrand Guillot. Adaptation and direction: Hugues Duchêne. With Oscar Montaz and Matéo Cichacki. It is a state in chronic deficit where the wealthiest evade taxes. A regime at the end of its rope. A people at the end of their nerves demanding justice and seeing nothing coming. A rich country but blocked, at the mercy of a capricious, deranged climate. That is France in the summer of 1789. Until that historic night of August 4 when everything changes at Versailles. Performed by an actor portraying about ten ch…