Theatre: the abolition of privileges

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Theatre: the abolition of privileges by the Le Royal Velours Company, for ages 14 and up. Adaptation and direction: Hugues Duchêne. With Oscar Montaz and Matéo Cichacki. It is a chronically deficit state where the richest avoid taxes. A regime to the end of its tether. A people at the end of its nerves calling for justice and seeing nothing coming. A rich country but blocked, at the mercy of the whims of a deranged climate. Such is France in the summer of 1789. Until that historic night of August 4 when everything changes at Versailles. Performed by an actor playing about ten characters, in u…