THE BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN - BOITACLOUS

Wealthy bourgeois, Monsieur Jourdain wakes up one morning with the absolute conviction that he was born to be a gentleman. Without hesitation, he orders embroidered clothes, dance masters, music teachers, philosophy instructors, and fencing coaches.

Everyone flatters him, everyone plucks him. And he, radiant, repeating endlessly that he has the wit of four, goes from lesson to lesson in a cascade. Music and dance transform him into a clumsy peacock who believes he is a swan.

Wearing the shimmering costume of this man trapped in a frantic quest for recognition, Jean-Paul Rouve leaps, blushes, indignantly reacts, and exclaims with delight. He swells his voice, squints his eyes, and waves his arms as if conducting an invisible orchestra. Each of his lines snaps, each of his silences brings laughter.

And we, accomplices, laugh at this bourgeois who wants everything, believes everything, and loses everything with the most disarming smile in theater. For under the guise of Jean-Paul Rouve, the bourgeois gentleman has never been so alive!

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