VILLAGES EN SCÈNE : L’abolition des privilèges – Le Royal Velours

After Je m’en vais mais l’État demeure, Hugues Duchêne adapts Bertrand Guillot’s historical novel L’abolition des privilèges, staging a virtuoso solo that plunges the audience right into the heart of the Estates General of 1789. At the time, the State was in chronic deficit and the regime was on its last legs. The richest were escaping taxation. The people, at their wit’s end, demanded justice but saw nothing forthcoming. The country is at a standstill, and suffering from the vagaries of a deregulated climate. Such was France in the summer of 1789. Until one night, in Versailles, in the heart of the fledgling National Assembly, everything changed. It was the Night of 4 August, which will go down as a key episode in the Revolution: the MPs’ renunciation of the ancestral feudal system. Thanks to a thrilling and truculent staging, and the performance of a chameleon actor embodying a multitude of characters, this show, conceived as a breathless sprint, truly gives you the feeling of experiencing History in the making, while cleverly resonating with our own times… For all audiences, aged 14 and over A rate Running time: 1 hour 15 minutes Limited audience – 150 people / session Online box office opening: 01/09 reserved for subscribers Opening of Brissac- Quincé and Chalonnes/Loire tourist office ticket offices: 02/09