Le Dîner chez les Français de V. Giscard d’Estaing

A farming couple from Normandy, their daughter and son-in-law, young parents and workers in Belfort, invite Anne-Aymone and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing over for New Year's Eve dinner. The dinner lasted seven years, from 1974 to 1981, and the show lasted ninety minutes, during which the characters grew older: the infant began to talk, the parents' relationship faltered, and the grandparents approached death. History, too, will move on: oil crises, social crisis, unemployment, societal upheavals such as the authorisation of abortion and divorce by mutual consent... A political comedy that's as scathing as it is hilarious, made for ideas but also for the pleasure of openly popular theatre. This is the third instalment in a major theatrical fresco by Léo Cohen-Paperman that tells the story of French society from 1958 to 2027 through the portraits of its "Republican Kings" and the story of a family spanning four generations.



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