The La Ciotat performance hall, in Bouches-du-Rhône, is still empty on November 28. It’s time for final adjustments for the management of La Chaudronnerie. Sophia Aram tests the sound by pushing into the high notes the rattle voice of Laurène, the flagship character of her one-woman show, The World After. A caricature of a young woman wokewho draws “hearts with hand” and “vaginas with fingers”, in support “to racialized people”. “Be careful, with her we make the loudspeakers go off every time,” warns the comedian, who knows his audience – “not very young people, even if there are some”.
Bernard and Armelle Vieau, a peaceful retired couple, feel like they are defying something forbidden this evening. Their daughter was moved when she learned that they were attending the performance: “Are you going to see Sophia Aram?” But she becomes racist! » “She is less and less left-wing”, commented more soberly on their son, who, in the schism of the churches of humor of France Inter, prefers Guillaume Meurice.
The placid Bernard, septuagenarian with an impeccable CV baby boomer (barricades in May 68, disappointed voter of François Mitterrand, disoriented support of Emmanuel Macron), did not allow himself to be shaken. “I try to be in the camp of intelligent people, assures this former business manager, even if I don’t really know where they are anymore. » Which gives him something in common with the star of the evening, lost in the fog of a left that no longer resembles him.
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