2015 // Prométhée enchaîné – Olivier Py and Enzo Verdet
For having offered the arts and fire to men, Prometheus embodies disobedience. Because it is fundamentally political, this play offers, according to Olivier Py, a "lesson in insurrection".
On July 6, 2015, the detained actors of the Avignon-Le Pontet penitentiary centre offered a performance of Prométhéé enchaîné in the gym.
2016 // Hamlet – Olivier Py and Enzo Verdet
On July 8, 2016, the actors of the Avignon-Le Pontet penitentiary centre performed Hamlet in the gym. The spectators present in front of an audience composed of prisoners, staff and politicians.
A year later, for the first time, the prisoners performed Hamlet at the Maison Jean Vilar in front of more than 400 people.
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2017 // Antigone – Olivier Py and Enzo Verdet
On 10 July 2017, the actors performed Antigone in their gym.
In 2018, as part of the Vis-à-vis Festival, a performance of the play is played outside the walls, in Paris at the Théâtre Paris-Villette. In July 2018, in parallel with the creation of a new play, they present Antigone at La Scierie, as part of the 72nd Festival d'Avignon.
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2018 // Les Perses – Olivier Py and Enzo Verdet
On 9 July 2018, the inmates present their new play Les Perses in the gym.
2019 // MacBeth philosophe – Olivier Py and Enzo Verdet
On 10 July 2019, the actors present their new play MacBeth Philosophe in the gym. Then from 17 to 19 July at the Tinel de la Chartreuse in Villeneuve-Lez-Avignon.
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2020 // Othello Astrologue – Olivier Py and Enzo Verdet
In 2020, despite the COVID and a halt to the theatre practice workshops, the project continued. The cancellation of the Festival did not allow the presentation of the OTHELLO they were preparing.
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2021-2022 // Œdipe – Enzo Verdet
In 2021, the group worked on an adaptation of Seneca's Oedipus, which will be performed in July 2022 at the prison.
2023 // Waiting for Godot – Enzo Verdet
Since 2022 the actors have been working on an adaptation of En attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett.
"There is nothing trivial about working on Waiting for Godot with prison actors. No theatre is trivial with these actors. The great themes of Godot, waiting (forced, one might say), the impossibility of leaving, repetition in language, in gestures, in action, otherness, laughter. From the very first readings, the actors were able to find the entrance to this monument of contemporary theatre." Enzo Verdet
The show will be performed on June 27, 2023, in the gymnasium of the Avignon-Le Pontet Penitentiary Center. Then on July 24 at the Mistral gymnasium.
2024 // La casa de Bernarda Alba – Enzo Verdet
The show will be performed on June 27, 2024, in the gymnasium of the Avignon-Le Pontet Penitentiary Center. Then on July 2, it will be performed at the Mistral gymnasium as part of the 78th edition of the Avignon Festival in the presence of the inmates' families and invited groups.
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2025 // Ils tiennent inlassablement les murs sans savoir quand viendra l'âge d'or – Enzo Verdet
Ils tiennent inlassablement les murs sans savoir quand viendra l’âge d’or (They tirelessly hold the walls without knowing when the golden age) will come borrows its title from a sentence in Ahmed Kalouaz's novel Avec tes mains (With Your Hands). In it, the author recounts the life of his father, an Algerian immigrant in 1950s France, using this unique journey to paint a portrait of a generation in exile, in a society undergoing reconstruction. Echoing these memories, the actors share their own stories, those of their families and their origins. These fragments blend with Kalouaz's text to form a common voice, that of a people journeying between two shores. The choral staging transforms these intimate stories into a collective fresco, where memory, heritage, and transmission intersect.