“Le Panache”, playing Cyrano to stop stuttering

Published on November 20, 2024 at 3:28 p.m. / Modified on November 20, 2024 at 9:33 p.m.

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His first name is simple: Colin. But when he has to pronounce it, the 14-year-old has to try it several times: “My name is Co-Co-Co-Colin…” The young boy is a stutterer and, faced with mockery, he chose silence and isolation. The less he talks, the more he plays video games alone, the better he is… But is this life when you enter the age of all possibilities, of crazy dreams and intense friendships?

Now he arrives at a new college, in the provinces, in the village where his mother grew up, and where she decided to return following her divorce. In this private and conservative school, Colin, like his classmates, discovers a new teacher: David Devarseau comes from Paris, and for him, teaching is not just about making his students fit into a mold. On the contrary, he is keen to reveal them to themselves. It offers the most motivated a theater workshop. Against the advice of his mother, who sees it as a new source of mockery, Colin decides to register. Here he must repeat Cyrano de Bergeracthe classic by Edmond Rostand…

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