Preview of the play ‘La dette’ (The debt)

Event details :

Fruit of work with researchers from the Bureau d’Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) in Nancy and director Jean-Yves Ruf, Franck Chevallay’s new play offers a playful and humorous foray into the world of finance, with the aim of providing the audience with a history of debt, as well as a reflection on current events and political issues.

Following on from the success of his play ‘Banque centrale’, Franck Chevallay has created a new, highly colourful show aimed at a wide audience, both informed spectators and those new to economic issues.

Abstract:

The banker of an imaginary bank that has survived the centuries invites the audience to an ‘exorcism’ session. He explains that he is haunted by spirits that make him feel guilty, and that he feels he owes the world something. So he decided to bring together groups of citizens to tell them the whole truth about his profession, to justify himself. But sometimes, as he speaks directly to the audience, his voice and posture change, as if he were possessed by a spirit. In the same way that certain sorcerers can be inhabited by the ‘spirit of the forest’ or the ‘spirit of a wild beast’, our banker is traversed by the spirits of economic concepts: ‘Labour value’, ‘Public power’, ‘Spirit of the curves’. And so, from spirit to spirit, the audience will travel through the history of debt, its topicality… and its political stakes.

Free and open to all members of the University of Lorraine.