Le Mauvais Sort — Céline Champinot

On this end-of-the-world stage, a police officer, a journalist, a doctor, and a star singer alternate burlesque sketches, love songs, magic tricks, and stripteases. These four archetypal figures of power, both familiar and grotesque, replay the symptoms of our romantic passions right up to intimate collapse. For it is indeed these yearnings of the heart — in their most distraught form — that lie at the center of this biblical-pop ritual. Irrepressible desire as a counter-spell cast against a world order obsessed with controlling bodies and imaginations. Passionate love in all its subversive power, capable of disrupting roles, shaking hierarchies, and fracturing Western structures of domination.

In this cabaret of broken hearts, where the ghosts of our romantic narratives surface, Céline Champinot does not seek so much to ward off passions as to experience their full scope, the better to shift our perspective. And what if, in this collapse, lay an unexpected possibility — that of seeing other ways of being in the world appear?

Céline Champinot takes us on this rollercoaster peculiar to the state of being in love, in its excesses and its great divides. [...] Full of twists and shifts in tone, Le Mauvais Sort plays tricks on us and invents expiatory rituals to purge our heartaches, turning our unhappy love experiences into the fertile ground for a jovial and irreverent carnival.

Marie Plantin, Sceneweb

Around the show

Cabaret workshop (WED. 2 DEC. 2026｜18h—21h) Duration 3h All audiences, from 15 years old Price 10€ Booking recommended

Accompanied by Céline Champinot, enter the world of cabaret and explore the effects of gaze and representation in a collective acting experience. Through this practice, you will observe how these forms are transformed as soon as they are looked at, and how the gaze constructs power, desire, or unease. The gaze is no longer merely passive: it becomes an active element of the stage.

Echoing her creation Le Mauvais Sort, this workshop by Céline Champinot proposes collectively building, in plain view, a small cabaret from simple gestures, attempts, and brief actions. Little by little, these ordinary gestures become acts, transformed by the fact of being replayed, observed, and staged.

The workshop relies on the triangular relationship between performer, acting partner, and audience, in order to foster listening, interaction, and the construction of collective forms rather than individual performance. Everyone is invited to offer leeway to the other as much as to oneself.

Finally, you experience what happens when playing the audience in front of an audience, and how this shifts roles, positions, and expectations.

Between acting, unsettling ambiguity, and staging oneself, this workshop invites everyone to explore the codes of cabaret through a collective, sensitive, and playful approach.

Reading workshop of "Désirer la violence" by Chloé Thibaud (WED. 9 DEC.｜18h30—21h30) In partnership with Peuple & Culture Duration 3h Price 8€ Booking recommended

La Maison des Métallos, in partnership with Peuple & Culture, invites you to a collective reading workshop around the book Désirer la violence : Ce(ux) que la pop culture nous apprend à aimer by Chloé Thibaud.

Who hasn't rejoiced at the vengeance of Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill? Melted before Allie and Noah meeting in The Notebook? Sung at the top of their lungs along with Grease? Since the cartoons of our childhood, we have been taught to desire the bad-boy archetype, to dream of the well-trodden scripts of romantic comedies, to hope to experience the "stolen" kiss.

Pop culture never ceases to insidiously influence our behaviors and romantic relationships. Yet these fascinations and preconceived ideas often prove toxic. This essay invites deep and bold reflection on the sexist and sexual violence hidden behind our favorite entertainments.

Collective reading (arpentage) is a method for discovering a book together. It is recommended not to read the book beforehand! The Métallos team will provide a copy, cold drinks, and treats for a friendly moment of sharing.

Tactile stage tour (THU. 10 DEC.｜18h) Explore the set and universe of the show thanks to a tactile tour of the stage, specially designed for blind and visually impaired people.

Post-show discussion (THU. 10 DEC. following the performance) Exchange with the artistic team after the performance.

Audience warm-up (FRI. 11 DEC.｜19h15) Take a moment for yourself before the show, a transition time between your daily routine and the auditorium. Guided by Marine Désessard, share a few movements, breaths, words, or knowing glances to let go and better welcome the show.

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