Il ne m’est jamais rien arrivé with Vincent Dedienne

Based on The Journal of Jean-Luc Lagarce

Directed, with set design and actor coaching by Johanny Bert

Adapted and performed by Vincent Dedienne

In French with English supertitles

Friday, March 27th at 8:00pm

Gates at 7pm for baguette sandwiches and cash bar

Vincent Dedienne donne voix aux journaux intimes de Jean-Luc Lagarce et fait surgir, mot après mot, le portrait bouleversant d’un jeune homme à la fois drôle, fragile et profondément lucide.

Entre Paris et Besançon, dans les années 1980, se déploie une vie solitaire et intensément émotionnelle : celle d’un passionné de théâtre confronté à l’apparition du SIDA et à la disparition de figures majeures de la culture française, comme Coluche et Simone Signoret.

Un récit d’une rare délicatesse, où le trivial devient essentiel, où l’intime rejoint l’Histoire — et où, sous l’apparente immobilité, tout brûle.

Vincent Dedienne brings the private journals of acclaimed French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce to life, addressing the audience directly and revealing the inner world of a young playwright coming of age. With wit and vulnerability, Lagarce reflects on his daily life, his ambitions, his doubts, and his deep devotion to the theater.

Set between Paris and Besançon in the 1980s, the performance traces a life lived mostly in solitude but with great intensity, shaped by artistic obsession, desire, friendship, and loss. As the AIDS crisis emerges and major figures of French culture such as Coluche and Simone Signoret pass away, his writing captures the weight of a generation facing uncertainty.