Theatre – Le Lien by François Bégaudeau

3 Rue des Martyrs

Stéphané visits his mother Christiane. She talks a lot. He listens less and less. She thinks they connect; he feels she never really speaks to him. Reproaches appear, words clash, the tone rises. He would like to leave. Yet he stays. In this real-time family conversation, François Bégaudeau observes with humor and precision the bond between a mother and her son. A banal situation that brings out misunderstandings, habits, wounds and, behind the words, an essential difficulty: how to express love…