Rimbaud sur le ring, a little sporting opera by Les Affranchis Compagny

Based on Le Forgeron by Arthur Rimbaud.

‘I’d be a man, and you’d be king, you’d say to me: I want to !… – You see, it’s stupid.’

Tuileries Palace, around 10 August 1792

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On a fine summer’s day, a Parisian blacksmith bursts into Louis XVI’s flats, opens the windows of the Tuileries Palace wide and shows the pale king the crowd of citizens in the courtyard shouting out their desire for justice and peace. The King was speechless at the sight. Every year since then, the country and the whole world have celebrated this day with joy!

In a language where lyricism and popular language are discovered and combined, the Parisian worker recounts the sufferings of the people, the humiliations and injustices. With humour and irony, with calm and tenderness, the blacksmith expresses the ambitions of his people: to bring about a just, peaceful and egalitarian society.

Text: Arthur Rimbaud

Directed by: Pierre Hoden

Assistant director: Maria Cadénas

Choreographer: Olivier Chanut

Trainer: Sam Berrandou

Acting: Katell Borvon

Dance: Emma Brest

Boxers from the Lumpini club:
Sam Berrandou
Loïc Delmestre
Séda Dolbachian
Stephane Dolbachian
Pauline Faure
Alamein Filali
Adam Salhi
Cécile Thiebault

Stage manager: Deyan Bussière

Costume: agnès b.

Set design: Pierre Hoden

With the support of :

Show accredited by the ‘Cultural Olympiad’ Région Île de France, Département de Seine-Saint-Denis, Ville de Saint-Denis, Ville de Paris, Paris 2024, Fonds de dotation agnès b., DRAC Île de France, ANCT – Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (National Agency for Territorial Cohesion)

Running time: 50 minutes
For all audiences, aged 12 and over.