Emma De Foucaud - A L'ancienne

Emma de Foucaud brings A L'Ancienne to Espace Gerson

At Espace Gerson, we love nights when the room’s brick-and-red-curtain intimacy makes you feel like the performer is speaking directly to your table. That is exactly the chemistry we’re preparing for with Emma de Foucaud and her show A L'Ancienne. Presented in our Vieux Lyon home, this date places Emma’s sharp, warm, and mischievous perspective just a few steps from the audience—ideal for her conversational style and lightning-fast crowd rapport. A L'Ancienne captures the daily tug‑of‑war between nostalgia and the hyper-connected present: analog rituals versus scrolling habits, voice calls versus voice notes, courtesy versus clapback. It’s the kind of theme that lands especially well in our venue, where the laughter ricochets off the walls and the silence of a well-timed pause can be felt in every seat. We curate performances here that celebrate personality and presence, and Emma’s writing—alive with lived details, snappy detours, and a keen ear for generational slang—fits our stage like a glove.

About A L'Ancienne: material, momentum, and a room built for connection

Emma de Foucaud arrives at Espace Gerson with momentum, and A L'Ancienne shows why. The show we’re hosting is a fast, textured tour through families that negotiate Sunday lunches like peace treaties, friendships under the algorithmic gaze, and romance that still believes in eye contact. If you follow her online, you might already know crowd-favorite bits like Le Filtre Sépia, Le Texto de 2h du matin, and Le Daron Mode d'Emploi—little slices of everyday theater that snap into the larger arc of A L'Ancienne. What we enjoy most, as a venue, is the way Emma retools these ideas for live performance. She’s agile with audience energy, letting a raised eyebrow or a whispered aside reshape a punchline in real time. Our room’s close quarters reward that kind of musicality: the rhythm of a tag, the held breath before a reversal, the quick pivot into a callback that suddenly threads the night together. It’s modern stand‑up with an old‑school handshake, exactly the balance her title promises and our crowd relishes.

From our perspective, Emma de Foucaud’s current artistic moment makes this date a timely one. She’s refining new transitions, testing unexpected callbacks, and pushing fresh angles that have been gathering traction with fans who discovered her through recent sketches and short-form sets. Audiences coming to Espace Gerson can expect the backbone of A L'Ancienne—its playful, pointed reflections on manners, dating, work, and family—enriched by new morsels she has been honing in clubs and on the road. Titles like La Cousine WhatsApp, Ticket de Métro Nostalgie, and Le Brunch Désynchronisé have emerged as crisp snapshots of where her voice is heading, and they sit comfortably alongside the show’s core beats about being “old-school” in a world that updates every hour. We’ve tuned the sound, the sightlines, and the pre-show ambiance to keep that intimacy front and center: the glow from the stage, the low hum before lights down, the shared grin between strangers at the exact moment a bit lands. For us at Espace Gerson, hosting A L'Ancienne isn’t just programming a date on a calendar; it’s welcoming a sharp, generous comic mind into a room designed to help it shine, with our Lyon audience ready to lean in, laugh hard, and recognize themselves in Emma’s timeless, timely observations.