L'amour à La Carte - Théâtre à L'ouest - Lyon

About L'Amour à la carte

At THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON, we are delighted to host L'Amour à la carte, a sparkling romantic comedy that plays with the flavors, textures, and unexpected pairings of modern love. The production delights in the language of cuisine and the rituals of dining to dissect first encounters, simmering tensions, and those bittersweet aftertastes that accompany any relationship worth remembering. The writing balances quick-fire banter with moments of gentle tenderness, and the cast navigates the ebb and flow of desire, jealousy, and compromise with a nimble physicality that thrives in our intimate room. Audiences can expect a lively rhythm of scenes that feel like carefully plated courses—each with its own seasoning of misunderstandings, reconciliations, and laughs—served by performers who know how to hold a silence as well as land a punchline. The staging takes clever advantage of minimal props and evocative sound cues, allowing the focus to remain squarely on the actors’ timing and chemistry. Whether you come as a couple, with friends, or solo, L'Amour à la carte speaks directly to the many ways we court, collide, and connect in a city that loves conversation as much as cuisine.

At THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON

Our venue’s warm acoustics and close sightlines make a natural home for the agile, dialogue-driven spirit of L'Amour à la carte. The show benefits from the kind of proximity that lets every raised eyebrow, every conspiratorial aside, and every moment of complicity ring true. From the first welcome at the door to the last laugh shared in the foyer, the evening is designed as an experience: brisk changes of scene, musical interludes that suggest the murmur of a bustling brasserie, and a set that morphs quickly from a corner banquette to a shared kitchen or a late-night street. The creative team behind L'Amour à la carte arrives with palpable momentum this season, refining scenes that play with the codes of the rom-com while embracing the unpredictability of real life. Their current work deepens the comedy by confronting the ways technology shapes intimacy—messages left on read, algorithmic matches, the paradox of infinite choice—without losing the timeless pleasures of a glance across the table or a dance around a disagreement. It is a piece built for a responsive audience, and our room, known for its convivial energy and crisp technical support, amplifies every beat.

Beyond the performance you see on stage, the artists champion a creative process that stays wonderfully close to spectators’ everyday stories. In rehearsals and throughout this run at THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON, they continue to sharpen transitions, test new comic pivots, and explore the musicality of dialogue—those crescendos of argument, the diminuendos of reconciliation—that keep a crowd leaning forward. Their current artistic activity includes parallel workshops focused on contemporary dialogue, where the team experiments with different “courses” of a relationship—starter flirtations, main-course commitments, and those decadent desserts of fantasy and nostalgia—to find fresh combinations of tone and tempo. That ongoing laboratory feeds directly into the performance on our stage, giving each scene a sense of lived-in spontaneity. The result is a comedy that respects the intelligence of its audience: elegant when it needs to be, a little messy where love demands it, and always attuned to the rhythms of city life. In Lyon, where the appetite for theater and conversation runs deep, L'Amour à la carte feels both current and classic, a witty evening out that leaves room for post-show debate over which “dish” of the night hit home the hardest.