Cultural Season > Theater 'What I Owe Marco Pantani'

Théâtre - Centre Culturel, Boulevard Leon Jozeau Marigné

An intimate and moving play about the cycling legend Marco Pantani. From archives, testimonies and pilgrimages, Lazare Pasquer reassembles the popular myth of his idol, Marco Pantani, the Italian cyclist who died at 34. How to read the fall as the promise of momentum? Between investigation findings and a plastic ritual, there is a attempt to make communion, to say what a fallen being can transmit to those who remain standing. Transform a death into a manifesto. Paying homage, making a world, that is the same thing. “In 2024, I was shocked, I was about to turn 34, the age of…”