Christophe Alévêque « Revue De Presse » - Tournée

At Théâtre Comédie Odéon: Christophe Alévêque brings Revue de presse to Lyon

At Théâtre Comédie Odéon, we are delighted to welcome Christophe Alévêque with his ever-evolving Revue de presse, a sharp, nightly refreshed deep-dive into the day’s headlines and the contradictions that hide behind them. Our stage is built for intimacy, precision, and pace—qualities that suit this performer’s quicksilver intelligence and his habit of pivoting from one front-page absurdity to the next. Revue de presse thrives on proximity: Alévêque reads, rants, edits, and improvises in real time, turning a stack of articles into an evening of cathartic laughter and collective fact-checking. In our hall, that alchemy is amplified; the audience is close enough to hear the crinkle of paper and the flicker of irony, and the comic can ride the room’s energy as he moves from politics to culture, from inflation to football, from climate policy to the daily theater of social media. Lyon’s appetite for lucid satire meets its match here at Théâtre Comédie Odéon, where this show’s nervous system—the news itself—pulses through every beat.

The artist’s current edge and what to expect on stage

Christophe Alévêque’s artistic present is as current as the morning edition. While Revue de presse is the backbone, the timing and targeting are unmistakably now: the language of “resilience,” the marketing of sustainability, the economics of outrage, the ping-pong of post-truth politics, and the new pieties of corporate communication all fall under his scalpel. From the vantage of Théâtre Comédie Odéon, we see how his craftsmanship turns uncertainty into narrative; he weaves the day’s disparate alerts into a dramaturgy of contradictions, punctuated with the kind of deadpan punchlines that stick. Audiences who have followed him over the years—whether they first encountered his bite on On n’est pas couché, his satirical volleys on Salut les Terriens !, or the radio verve of Le fou du roi—will recognize the same fearless appetite for tackling sacred cows. Yet the tempo is unmistakably 2020s: quicker pivots, a denser media feed, high-speed context-switching, and the warmth of a live room hungry for sense-making.

Our programming at Théâtre Comédie Odéon favors artists who test forms as much as they skewer content, and Alévêque’s Revue de presse does both. Expect the dramaturgy of a newsroom staged in miniature: clippings becoming characters, headlines morphing into monologues, and editorials repurposed as tragicomedy. Expect Lyon-specific nods—local policy, regional quirks, the city’s cultural pulse—folded into national and international headlines. Expect a performer who probes audience reactions, rewrites on the fly, and treats silence as a partner to punchlines. As the Revue de presse tournée passes through our theater, we present a version of the show that belongs entirely to this evening—no two editions are the same, because no two news cycles are the same. The result is both comic release and civic exercise: a tour of the week’s logic traps coupled with the joy of dismantling them in company. We invite you to experience this one-night-only edition at Théâtre Comédie Odéon, where satire meets the urgency of the present tense.