Camille Lienard - C'est Pas La Nuit Qu'elle Dort

At Le Boui-Boui: a close-up encounter with Camille Lienard

At Le Boui-Boui, we love nights that crackle with ideas, and few hours feel more alive than when Camille Lienard takes the stage with C'est pas la nuit qu'elle dort. In our intimate room—where every breath, silence, and burst of laughter lands with precision—her sharp sense of timing and delicately acerbic point of view bloom into a shared experience. The show’s premise plays with the strange lucidity that arrives when the city sleeps: the thoughts that won’t quit, the petty worries that become epic, and the sudden tenderness we discover for our quirks at 3 a.m. Camille guides this throughline with an affectionate honesty, folding sly one-liners into storytelling that swerves between poetic and punchy. Expect a piece built for the room: conversational, agile, and irresistibly present, with crowd interplay that is welcoming rather than confrontational. The result is that rare late-evening atmosphere Le Boui-Boui was made for—a theatrical stand-up hybrid that feels spontaneous without losing its elegant architecture.

About Camille Lienard’s current artistic moment

We’re hosting Camille at a time when her creative voice feels especially focused and generous. C'est pas la nuit qu'elle dort distills the obsessions of a writer-performer who notices the micro-gestures of everyday life—a neighbor’s key turning at odd hours, a screen’s blue glow in the next room, the oddly intimate choreography of public transport—then refracts them into stories that carry both wit and warmth. This season finds her leaning into a finely honed style: meticulously crafted beats that still allow for the thrill of discovery night after night, with pockets of improvisation that connect her directly to the people in the room. From our vantage point at Le Boui-Boui, it’s a joy to watch her calibrate pace and rhythm, letting a laugh breathe here, tightening a callback there, and nudging the audience from confessional intimacy into communal release. The show’s title becomes a playful manifesto: if rest won’t come, one might as well turn that wakefulness into clarity, humor, and a portrait of city life that commuters will recognize the next morning.

Programming C'est pas la nuit qu'elle dort at Le Boui-Boui means curating an evening where the staging enhances the writing. Our close quarters sharpen every detail—how Camille positions a glance to the back row, how a half-step forward carries a new beat, how a quiet beat before a punchline turns anticipation into laughter. Technically, the piece thrives on clean sound and quick lighting shifts that echo the nocturnal rhythm it evokes: soft pools of light for confessional passages, brisk snaps for comic pivots, and the occasional shadow to suggest the liminal hours where thoughts drift. As a venue dedicated to giving artists the right space to test, polish, and share, we’re excited to welcome audiences who want to encounter a voice mid-flight, not in an echo chamber. Come as you are, lean in, and let the night stretch a little longer—C'est pas la nuit qu'elle dort is exactly the kind of crafted, living performance that keeps Le Boui-Boui awake for all the right reasons.