Wedekind is the first playwright to have made the discovery of
sexuality a central theme. He speaks of the time when a child changes into an adult. Questions are concrete. Flowers have bloomed, fruits are not yet present. Spring does not spare the characters of this “children’s tragedy”: in the heart of the erotic opening, some of them meet death. In 1891, the questioning of Puritanism and of Prussian education caused a scandal. The play shows youth as it is and not how we would like it to be...

after Frank Wedekind
french translation from German François Regnault
director Guillaume Vincent
set design Alexandre de Dardel
dramaturgy Marion Stoufflet
choreographer David Wampach
lighting Nicolas Joubert
costumes Lucie Durand
music Olivier Pasquet
technical director Rémi Papin
with Émilie Incerti-Formentini, Florence Janas, Pauline Lorillard, Nicolas Maury, Philippe Orivel, Matthieu Sampeur, Cyril Texier

Avec le bleu de midi et le noir de minuit Company / Paris,
La Colline - théâtre national / Paris