La Loi du Marché

La Loi du Marché is a theatrical adaptation of Stéphane Brizé's film, with 8 actors and actresses. Carine is a former factory worker who became unemployed following a redundancy plan at her plant. Now a job seeker, she navigates from unsuccessful job interviews to useless training sessions, dreading falling into poverty more and more. To her great relief, she finally lands a security guard job at a supermarket. But to keep this long-awaited job, she finds herself forced to take action against people even poorer than herself (a retiree stealing a steak, a cashier colleague pilfering a discount voucher...). Are dignity and humanity still possible when precariousness looms, in a world where human beings are pitted against each other rather than in brotherhood?

After Les Fils de la Terre (on the agricultural world) and Ressources Humaines (on the working-class world), Elise Noiraud tackles the issue of precarity with La Loi du Marché, focusing on the fragmentation of individual journeys and the isolation of individuals caused by neoliberalism.

Compagnie 28 (composed of the same artistic team as for the two previous shows) thus concludes with this project a trilogy of shows with a strong social dimension, combining individual trajectories with powerful collective issues.