Le Duplex (tournée)

Le Duplex at Radiant-Bellevue

Radiant-Bellevue is delighted to welcome Le Duplex, a sparkling slice of contemporary French theatre whose very title conjures the mischievous promise of multi-level misunderstandings. From our vantage point on stage and in the hall, this production is built for the kind of communal laughter our auditorium amplifies so well: brisk entrances and exits, witty ripostes ricocheting from one landing to the next, and a scenography that turns thresholds, staircases, and doors into comic instruments. Le Duplex thrives on pace, and our technical team has tuned lights, sightlines, and acoustics to keep every beat crisp, every aside audible, and every near-miss deliciously visible from the stalls to the balcony. Expect a cascade of ruses, secrets negotiated between floors, and heart-on-sleeve complications that escalate with each scene change—classic boulevard energy updated with a modern sensibility. Whether you come for the farcical mechanics or the tender observations about cohabitation, urban solitude, and friendship, this stop on the tournée is designed to let the humor breathe, the humanity glow, and the surprises land exactly where they should: with the audience leaning forward together.

On tour and in the spotlight

As the production continues its tournée across the country, the creative team behind Le Duplex arrives at Radiant-Bellevue with momentum and a refined rhythm that only the road can teach. The staging plays with symmetry and height—the essential grammar of a duplex—turning the apartment into a living puzzle box where characters negotiate privacy, desire, and the comic peril of being overheard. Our venue’s generous stage width allows the direction to stretch into elegant diagonals and choreographed crossings, while intimate seating keeps the emotional stakes close. This season’s iteration leans into sharp contemporary dialogue, illuminating how modern neighbors, couples, and confidants navigate proximity and pretense. You can expect a deft blend of physical timing and verbal fireworks, the kind of ensemble chemistry that makes the audience feel like conspirators in every scheme, and an undercurrent of tenderness that gives the laughter its glow. At Radiant-Bellevue, we cherish productions that balance finesse with fun; Le Duplex brings both, with a tempo that hums like a city evening and a heart that lands softly when the doors finally stop swinging.

What makes this engagement special for Radiant-Bellevue is the way Le Duplex speaks to our Lyon-area audiences: it is a city play at heart, propelled by the energy of close quarters, overheard truths, and the hazardous kindnesses of neighbors who become family by proximity. Our technical and front-of-house teams have crafted an experience that favors clarity—clean transitions, precise sound placement for whispered confidences, and lighting palettes that mark each floor and mood—so the architecture of the story is always legible. We invite theatergoers who love the craftsmanship of farce to watch for the choreographic logic underpinning the chaos: the setup that blooms three scenes later, the line you thought was a throwaway returning as a key, the gesture that means one thing upstairs and quite another below. If you have followed the troupe’s recent work on stage, you will sense how their touring season has sharpened each exit cue and softened each reconciliation, yielding a performance that is both effervescent and humane. For our part, hosting Le Duplex is an ode to what our hall does best: gathering people for a shared, generous laugh and sending them home with the warmth that lingers after the final blackout.