Bérengère Krief - Sexe (tournée)

Bérengère Krief brings Sexe to Lyon

As a Lyon stage committed to hosting artists who reshape the conversation around contemporary life, we are thrilled to welcome Bérengère Krief with her bold new show, Sexe. A fixture of the French comedy landscape, she first captured the public’s imagination with her breakout presence in the Canal+ phenomenon Bref., and she went on to confirm her voice with the tender and incisive solo work Amour. With Sexe, Bérengère steps into even more intimate territory, wielding humor as both shield and scalpel. She explores the awkward, the ecstatic, and the unspoken—dating rituals, consent, power, pleasure, shame, and the mythology of “perfect” bodies—through her stand-up precision and actorly finesse. For our Lyon audience, this meeting promises the immediacy that only live performance can deliver: a dialogue charged with wit, vulnerability, and sly rebellion, designed to be felt together in a room where laughter rolls from row to row and every gasp or giggle becomes part of the text itself.

On our stage: candor, craft, and electric connection

What sets Sexe apart is Bérengère Krief’s unmistakable stagecraft. She moves from razor-sharp observations to character snapshots in a heartbeat, shaping a rhythm that keeps the house alert, complicit, and happily disarmed. The show’s writing favors crisp beats and scenic surprises: one moment she’s anatomizing the absurd choreography of first encounters; the next she’s flipping pop-cultural clichés about desire on their head with a sly aside or a physical punchline. Her command of timing—honed across years of solo touring and screen work—grounds the edgier material in heart, so no confession lands without a counterweight of play. In Lyon, that artistry meets a room built for intimacy and resonance. You will feel her calibrate the temperature of the audience, stretch a silence until it sings, and then cut it with a line that detonates into laughter. Sexe isn’t just a theme; it’s the prism through which she studies power, tenderness, and the messy, marvellous business of being human together.

For those following the artist’s current trajectory, Sexe comes on the heels of the richly toured Amour and a steady presence in cultural conversations that her early turn in Bref. helped spark. This new creation captures a moment when public discourse around bodies, identity, and desire is both embattled and exhilarating—and Bérengère answers with a show that is audacious without losing warmth, pointed without sacrificing joy. Audiences can expect the comic elasticity that made her name: a readiness to lean into improvisation, to catch a glance in the crowd and spin it into a shared joke, to weave social satire into confessional comedy without didactic edges. As hosts, our goal is simple: to offer the best possible conditions for that electricity to flow—clear sightlines, attentive acoustics, and the kind of backstage care that frees an artist to take risks. In Lyon, the night belongs to Bérengère Krief and to Sexe; we open the door, you bring your curiosity, and she brings the rest.