A dying man crashes his family's denial party. No one lets him speak. Chaos ensues.
A staging of Jean-Luc Lagarce's play "It's Only the End of the World" by François Berreur.
Acting
Ensemble chemistry crackles with decades of unspoken resentment.
Writing
Lagarce's circular dialogue traps everyone in linguistic quicksand.
Director
Jérémie Cuvillier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lagarce wrote this knowing his own HIV diagnosis; he died before seeing its acclaim. The 2016 Xavier Dolan film adaptation brought it to international audiences.
The characters constantly talk over Louis because the play argues families create noise precisely to avoid hearing what matters.
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