Theatre : Fool

Who is the fool? What if the answer concerned us all? With his humor as tasty as it is formidable, Jérôme Rouger dismantles the mechanisms of our contradictions and our need to always be right. On this deceptively innocuous theme, he deploys a joyful game of massacre, where no one escapes doubt. The result is a brilliant one-man show, where intelligence feeds on laughter.

Who is the fool? What if the answer concerned us all? With his humor as tasty as it is formidable, Jérôme Rouger dismantles the mechanisms of our certainties, our contradictions and our need to always be right. The result is a brilliant one-man show, where intelligence feeds on laughter.
Jérôme Rouger is back at La Coupe d'Or and we are delighted about it. Actor, author and director, he cultivates a delicate art of offbeatness, where humour becomes a formidable tool for reflection. This time, this time he is used to spectacular conferences has chosen a subject that titillated him: imbecility, a serious subject, scientifically documented!
On this deceptively innocuous theme, Jérôme Rouger deploys a joyful game of massacre, where no one escapes doubt. Every digression, every false syllogism, every verbal pirouette hits the mark. Behind the laughter is a tender and lucid look at our time, where everyone is convinced that they have the truth. With a very British elegance, an irresistible sense of demonstration and an assumed taste for shaky reasoning, he leads the audience in a conference that is as erudite as it is deliciously crazy. The laughter bursts out, frank, generous, contagious.
Jérôme Rouger prefers to shift the gaze and cultivate self-mockery to question our relationship to truth, opinions, prejudices and otherness. A show of delightful insight, which reminds us that humour is sometimes the best way to think about the world.

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