the quest for raw theater by Pauline Bayle in Dieppe

The Dieppe Scène nationale team will meet you this Tuesday, September 21, 2025 in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) to discover Lost illusions, a piece by Pauline Bayle according to Balzac.

At the beginning of the industrial revolution, the poet Lucien Chardon experienced both a meteoric rise and a terrible fall. In the time it takes to put on a jacket or tie a scarf, five actors move from one role to another with jubilation, playing around twenty characters.

Hopes and passions

Bodies come together, separate and chase each other, feet strike the ground and create the mist of Paris, where naive hopes are consumed as quickly as passions. Through this initiatory journey, Lost illusions reveals the workings of a cruel society where no one is spared.

By adapting for the theater this novel that Balzac himself described as a “monster volume” and “a major work within a work”, Pauline Bayle wishes to continue her work on the great founding texts of literature.

An initiatory story on the Dieppe stage Scène nationale

These books which have shaped our relationship with the world and which continue to nourish our collective imagination. “After exploring the universe of Homer for three years, I would like to immerse myself in that of the Human Comedy and tell the rise and fall of a man in a single movement,” she says.

An initiatory story resolutely anchored in reality and the present, Lost illusions brings individuals face to face with their deepest desires in the jungle of a Paris very close to ours.

Theater this Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 8 p.m. at DSN. Prices: from €25 to €5. Reservations on the Internet: www.dsn.asso.fr; or 02 35 32 04 43.

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