Tuesday 17 march 2026 from 20:30 to 21:45

Theater - The Lesson

  • Cultural
  • Theatre
Théâtre Olympe de Gouges, 4 place lefranc de pompignan, 82000 Montauban
The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco - General audience Duration: 1h15
The professor must prepare Mademoiselle for her doctorate. Initially, the exchanges adhere to the strict framework of social codes. But as the words, repeated in obsessive series, gradually lose their meaning, the lesson takes a sadistic turn: the timid professor becomes tyrannical, and the brilliant young woman becomes frightened and submissive.
Returning to Ionesco's The Lesson in these uncertain times is essential: it addresses the violence of language as a weapon of authoritarianism, a highly political and inspiring issue. How can we share knowledge and create a desire to learn? The professor in The Lesson represents the danger of a pyramidal system that assumes that transmitting knowledge is equivalent to imposing it—and that creates distrust among young people.
Transmitting, learning, imposing: the line is thin. What happens when it is crossed?

A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR
"It is our responsibility to bring this work to everyone, especially the younger generations. It's up to us to offer something other than this world where youth is crushed, where mastery of language and literary appetite, currently mistreated in our school system, remain the preserve of the powerful."
Robin Renucci

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On 17 March 2026
  • 20:30 at 21:45

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Theater - The Lesson
Théâtre Olympe de Gouges, 4 place lefranc de pompignan, 82000 Montauban

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  • French
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