Emma De Foucaud - A L'ancienne

Espace Gerson welcomes Emma de Foucaud and A l’ancienne

At Espace Gerson, we champion performers who bring both craft and heart to the stage, and that is precisely why we are thrilled to host Emma de Foucaud with her show A l’ancienne. Our Lyon room is built for proximity: a tight, convivial space where every glance, pause, and punchline lands with the electricity of a conversation shared. From the first lights to the last laugh, our audience and artists stand eye to eye, and Emma’s timing, musicality of phrasing, and appetite for playful interaction fit this setting perfectly. A l’ancienne taps into something we recognize in our own walls: the joy of old-school connection—human tempo, unfiltered presence—reframed for today. Expect a comedian who mines the contrasts between the analog and the always-on, the rituals we miss and the shortcuts we’ve embraced, and the surprising tenderness that hides in everyday habits. It is the sort of evening we love to curate at Espace Gerson: intimate, immediate, and gloriously alive to the room’s mood.

Onstage at Espace Gerson: the pulse of A l’ancienne

Emma de Foucaud’s A l’ancienne thrives on observation sharpened into story. In our experience, the show plays like a lively map of small, vital details—a purse full of receipts, a ringtone that betrays your age, a kitchen drawer where five generations’ worth of tools tangle into one. Emma uses crisp character work, nimble callbacks, and a mischievous rapport with the public to ride those details toward bigger questions: what do we keep, what do we upgrade, and what does “progress” feel like when feelings lag behind tech? As the evening unfolds at Espace Gerson, you’ll hear her weave relatable beats into textured scenes, including recent bits she has been polishing onstage such as “Le Walkman contre l’Algorithme,” “Tupperware de famille,” “Service après-vente de l’amour,” “Génération Minitel,” and “Calendrier papier, cœur en pagaille.” These pieces let her toggle between eras with ease: she can slow time to the click of a cassette and then snap us back to a screen-lit present, all while keeping the crowd close, alert, and complicit. For our room, where spontaneity is a living thing, her quick pivots and light improvisation feel tailor-made.

We also welcome A l’ancienne at a busy creative moment for Emma de Foucaud, and it shows in the way she brings new textures to the stage. She’s currently road-testing fresh material with the confidence of a comic who writes nightly and listens closely to the room—exactly the process we love to nurture at Espace Gerson. Alongside anchors from her set, she has been shaping longer, more narrative pieces that extend her “old-school vs. new-school” lens into family lore, work life, and friendships that survive by ritual more than convenience. Keep an ear out for the evolving contours of segments she’s been workshopping under titles like “Rituel du dimanche,” “L’open space me parle,” and “Cartes postales et mots de passe,” which showcase her gift for building character arcs without losing the snap of a one-liner. In our house, those pieces bloom: the brick, the low ceiling, the laughter that rolls forward row by row—all of it amplifies Emma’s feel for rhythm and pause. Hosting her at Espace Gerson means inviting audiences into a live laboratory of wit and warmth, where A l’ancienne becomes both a celebration of what we remember and a fresh, present-tense promise of where she’s headed next.