Spectacle : Mesure pour mesure

Through music, dance and speech, this queer and musical tale celebrates free identities, their march of disorder and their salvific excess like the flight of caged birds.

1603. Vienna. Strict religious law in power. A palace, a brothel, a prison.
2025. Vienna, Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Budapest, Washington, everywhere. The fascist far right is spreading like a cancer. In Prague, young Angelo is elected to the government. Culture resists in a headquarters, the Cabaret of Shadows.

One day, Isabella, the cabaret's star performer, mysteriously loses her voice, her face darkens, and she can no longer dance. Did Angelo strike without leaving a trace? Or is the poison coming from within? Isabella becomes a mirror to the struggles of the rebels against the regime, and everyone wonders: can art still save them?

Playwright and co-director : Garance Hamon
Co-director : Malvina Doucet
Performers : Maëli Accade, Valentin Caillon, Malvina Doucet, Nadia Douel - - Sharshar, Adrien Thorelle, and students from Sorbonne-Nouvelle (more cast to come)
Composer and musical arranger : Valentin Caillon
Choreographer : Maëli Accade

Production : La Compagnie Arlie and Presbytère Productions
With the support of the CVEC of the Crous of Paris, the FSDIE Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Arts and Culture Department