La lente et difficile agonie du crapaud buffle sur le socle patriarchal

A highlight of the Festival d'Avignon Off 2025, La lente et difficile agonie du crapaud buffle sur le socle patriarcal, performed by a daring trio—Julien Flament, Anne-Sophie Pauchet and Juliette Lamour—reconstructs with sharpness and wit a major radio moment where political feminism confronts patriarchal discourse. A feminist, joyous and cathartic production!

4 December 2021: Alain Finkielkraut welcomes to his radio programme the philosopher Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, author of Un corps à soi, and essayist Jean-Michel Delacomptée, author of Les hommes et les femmes, notes sur l'esprit du temps.

On the programme: Men and women today – On the evolution of relations between the sexes and their revolution. Quickly, what could have simply been a traditional debate reveals itself to be far more complex, transforming into a brilliant demonstration of contemporary feminism confronting patriarchal rhetoric. Two visions clash, two worlds collide.

Has the patriarchal structure of our society truly changed as its defenders claim? Or must we, as the philosopher contends, keep fighting to truly bring down the unequal foundations on which it rests?

Gradually the debate intensifies, masks fall, and listeners follow the discussion spellbound, as if witnessing the slow and painful agony of the cane toad on the crumbling patriarchal pedestal...