19 June – 29 August

Charles Nouveau — Vous voulez parler de quoi?

Charles Nouveau offers an intimate, fast-paced solo improvised show built entirely from audience prompts. With razor-sharp comic timing and playful curiosity, he turns themes suggested by the room into spontaneous sketches, jokes and conversations. Each performance is unique, mixing candid interaction with surreal detours and unpredictable stand-up rhythms, inviting the audience to co-create the evening. Runs about one hour and foregrounds improvisation as a theatrical experiment.

In French.

6 Avenue Cardinal Mermillod
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