THEATRE: MY DISTINCTION

THÉÂTRE MUNICIPAL JEAN MARMIGNON, 3 Place Hippolyte Ducos

In this performance, Lilian Derruau links his experience as a “kid from the prolo” to the ideas of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Not content with simply recounting memories of this early childhood, he portrays this working-class France of the 1970s in a text where playfulness and self-deprecation go hand in hand. Long a singer with a humorous leanings under the name Wally, here he appears in a completely different register: the sociological narrative, but in his own way, one that provokes laughter with a touch of poetry and a lot of emotion. An era of carefree days, then an awareness of a form…