Theater - The Lesson

The professor must prepare Mademoiselle for her doctorate. Initially, the exchanges adhere to the strict framework of social codes. But as the words, repeated in obsessive series, gradually lose their meaning, the lesson takes a sadistic turn: the timid professor becomes tyrannical, and the brilliant young woman becomes frightened and submissive.
Returning to Ionesco's The Lesson in these uncertain times is essential: it addresses the violence of language as a weapon of authoritarianism, a highly political and inspiring issue. How can we share knowledge and create a desire to learn? The professor in The Lesson represents the danger of a pyramidal system that assumes that transmitting knowledge is equivalent to imposing it—and that creates distrust among young people.
Transmitting, learning, imposing: the line is thin. What happens when it is crossed?

A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR
"It is our responsibility to bring this work to everyone, especially the younger generations. It's up to us to offer something other than this world where youth is crushed, where mastery of language and literary appetite, currently mistreated in our school system, remain the preserve of the powerful."
Robin Renucci

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