Aux Grands Maux, Les grands Discours

After winning over audiences in Quebec, Aux grands maux, les grands discours crosses the Atlantic and is reborn in Paris in a brand new French production at Théâtre Gaîté Rive Gauche.

From Victor Hugo to Malala Yousafzai, from Churchill to Simone Veil, from Martin Luther King to Gisèle Halimi, voices that marked their era come alive on stage. Words of courage, freedom and resistance, but also words that divided, manipulated and led to the worst.

Because a speech can rally a nation, advance society, overturn certainties. It can enlighten. It can also destroy.

Supported by archival footage and placed in historical context, these texts respond to one another across the centuries with striking relevance.

Without imitation or period reconstitution, director Marie Guibourt restores full focus to the essential: the raw power of words.

A striking journey to the heart of our collective memory that asks a deeply contemporary question: in an era when speech has never circulated so fast, do we still measure its true power?