the essential
The ex-cathode columnist made the stage of the “Bascala” shine yesterday, for his first of two sold-out evenings.
“Bascala” is a packed house for the two Viktorovitch evenings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, which will have brought together 1,600 people. The “Bleu Citron” productions, perfect organizers of this double event, can be satisfied with the appearance of Clément Viktorovitch. The cathodic phenomenon, also adored by students at Sciences-Po through which he also passed, has managed to inspire enthusiasm in Toulouse, as it does everywhere in France. His “Art of Not Saying”, a show carefully constructed over two years, goes beyond the brilliant semiological analyzes dear to Clément Viktorovitch. This story of a communications advisor suddenly rejected by a president thus revealing his detestability, reminds us too much of the one who has been compared to Machiavelli since a certain year 2017.
Talent and elegance
In this exercise of very high style, where play and interactive humor with the public also has its place, Viktorovitch reminds us above all that words are weapons that we must know how to use, which our politicians do on purpose. 24 hours a day. “The Art of Not Saying” takes great pleasure in unmasking, flushing out, even confusing all the “Tartuffes” who govern us, drunk with power and recognition. Despite everything, the show never falls into malice, or even caricature, Clement Viktorovitch having far too much talent, far too much elegance, to fall into such easy ways. No, he, until the end, continues to assert the hidden truths of these speeches that are sometimes hysterical, sometimes demagogic, most of the time “empty” and “unskillful”…
“The art of not saying” by Clément Viktorovitch, Le Bascala, this Thursday January 16, 8:30 p.m., sold out.
