Les Enchanteurs - Christophe Malavoy - Le Radiant - Caluire

A distinctive encounter at Radiant-Bellevue with Christophe Malavoy

At Radiant-Bellevue, we are delighted to welcome Christophe Malavoy for Les Enchanteurs, a stage experience that aligns with our house’s commitment to literary theatre, finely crafted performance, and intimate encounters between artist and audience. From our vantage point as a venue, what excites us most is Malavoy’s ongoing dedication to living language: the way he carries text to the edge of music, the way he turns silence into breathing room for meaning. His artistic present remains strikingly active, spanning tours that foreground the spoken word, collaborations that favor proximity, and carefully honed interpretations that bring classic and contemporary voices into the same luminous space. In recent seasons, audiences across France have met him anew in stripped-back formats—readings, recitals of thought, actor’s notebooks—where the craftsmanship of diction and the precise curve of a phrase matter as much as any theatrical flourish. Bringing Les Enchanteurs to Caluire-et-Cuire fits naturally within our programming: a meeting of an artist whose work has matured toward essential forms and a venue designed for clarity, warmth, and a shared sense of attention.

Les Enchanteurs at Radiant-Bellevue: an evening of presence, precision, and listening

Les Enchanteurs, as we present it on our stage, invites the audience to lean forward and listen—to the grain of the voice, to the weight of words, to the musicality that emerges when text is treated as a living companion. Our hall’s architecture accentuates this closeness: the lines of sight are generous, the acoustics tuned for nuance, and the lighting plots sculpt the face and hands in quiet conversation with shadow. From rehearsal to performance, our technical team has prepared a sound image designed to respect breath, articulation, and resonance, ensuring that the smallest turn of phrase can travel to the back row without losing intimacy. The dramaturgical approach of the evening trusts the audience’s intelligence and curiosity; nothing is forced, nothing is overstated. What matters is the encounter: an actor who inhabits language with tenderness and clarity, and spectators who accept the invitation to slow down, to rediscover the pleasure of cadence and the depth of images summoned by the spoken word. As the minutes pass, the evening expands into a landscape of memory and feeling, where humor can flash like a spark and seriousness can settle with a soft, luminous gravity.

For Radiant-Bellevue, situated in Caluire-et-Cuire at the gateway to metropolitan Lyon, hosting Les Enchanteurs is also a way to reaffirm what we value as a venue: hospitality, precision, and a generous frame around artists who work with attention and care. Our front-of-house teams choreograph the audience’s arrival so that the threshold into the theater feels like a threshold into a shared listening space; our stage crew calibrates cues with an artisan’s patience; and our programming places this evening in dialogue with other projects centered on text, voice, and the art of presence. Christophe Malavoy’s current trajectory speaks to an artist who continues to refine rather than inflate—favoring essentials, cultivating a direct rapport with audiences, and carrying literature as a living companion rather than a museum piece. This is why the meeting at Radiant-Bellevue matters: our room is built for this scale of attention, and our public, curious and generous, recognizes the labor behind apparent simplicity. Les Enchanteurs offers a rare chance to inhabit that shared attention—to hear the lines breathe, to feel a hall become quiet enough for language to do its work, and to let the afterglow of the performance travel with you into the night air of Caluire-et-Cuire.