LA BONNE ÂME DU SE-TCHOUAN

Hardly arrived on earth, the gods ask for hospitality for the night. Only the prostitute Shen Té agrees to welcome them. Rewarded for her goodness, she buys herself a small tobacco shop. Exploiters soon flock in and abuse her generosity.

To save her business, she invents a male double, Shui Ta, ruthless towards beggars. This striking parable, written by Brecht at the end of the 30s, is far from obsolete. Nora Granovsky wishes to transpose it to our era and thus replay the paradoxes of goodness.

Can one still be generous and altruistic in a mercantile and corrupt world? Does our survival take precedence over mutual aid? A troupe of all ages, singers and musicians, will stir up these questions across 10 scenes and 6 musical interludes. No question of sulking our pleasure in this theater made in plain view, where playing is free, direct address all the better to spark astonishment. A fine opportunity to rediscover this immense epic fable, desperate and joyful at once.

When goodness is put to the test of misery, does anything remain for us but the law of the strongest?