JJ Vanier - à la recherche de la recherche

Reading In Search of Lost Time has never been a challenge for Jean-Jacques Vanier, any more than climbing Everest. Yet when his drama teacher tells him one day that "the most beautiful of journeys is the journey within and its best agency is reading In Search of Lost Time", this phrase echoes within him for a long time. It will take him a few years for the idea to germinate to read La Recherche, to dive back into his childhood through that of Marcel Proust, and then to lead the spectator into his own memories, his own school playground. An interrogation to which Jean-Jacques Vanier strives to respond in a droll tribute to lovers as well as victims of Proust, to schoolmasters, to bus drivers, to our dear grannies and to the Jeu des Mille Francs. Making people roar with laughter using Marcel Proust is unexpected yet Vanier achieves it with delight. Irresistible. Pure stage happiness.