Massacre à La Princesse

Massacre à la princesse at THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON

At THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON, we delight in welcoming works that dare to twist expectations, and Massacre à la princesse does so with exhilarating nerve. From our vantage point in the room, the piece’s play with light and shadow, innocence and dread, is ideally served by the venue’s intimate proximity. The title’s mischievous collision of sweetness and menace becomes a live current: candy colors that curdle, lullabies that turn into alarms, a fairy-tale silhouette that keeps slipping through our fingers. The performance weds razor-edged humor with tightly coiled theatrical tension, inviting the audience to lean in to every whisper, gasp, and sideways glance. In our black-box configuration, the design language—crisp sound cues, quicksilver costume flourishes, and precise, cinematic lighting—reads with striking clarity, letting each beat land where it should: right in the collective imagination of a Lyon crowd that loves to decode, laugh, and be startled in the same breath.

An artistic moment to savor in Lyon

From the first rehearsal on our stage, we could feel how the creators of Massacre à la princesse are working at a vivid artistic pitch. Their writing sharpens popular mythology until it glints, then turns it ever so slightly to reveal what lies in the reflection: our appetite for storybook promises, our complicity in performance, our fascination with danger dressed in velvet. Without resorting to spoiler territory, the show’s structure threads together strands of physical theatre, satirical storytelling, and a noir-ish sense of rhythm. It’s a theatrical experience calibrated for the live encounter—with timing that blooms in the silence between lines, with images that unfurl in the collective eye of the room. That makes THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON a natural host: our stage rewards nuance, our acoustics cradle the smallest inflection, and our audience’s renowned attentiveness gives such a piece the vibrant echo it deserves. For us, this date is not just another slot in the calendar; it is a pulse point of the season, a moment where contemporary creation speaks in a voice that is both playful and disquieting.

We are especially proud of how Massacre à la princesse aligns with our curatorial compass. The show joins a lineage of productions we invite because they test the boundaries between laughter and unease, between the icon and its mask. Expect staging that plays with the ritual of coronation and the choreography of danger; expect language that slips elegantly from irony to sincerity; expect a final tableau that lingers like a question in the foyer long after the lights rise. Our team has shaped the room to heighten those sensations: seating that keeps you close to the action, a sound image tuned to carry the crispness of breath and the shock of a sudden cut, lighting angles that carve space into mythic pockets. THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON thrives on that immediacy, on the shared electricity that only a live night can provide. If you come curious, the piece will meet you with wit; if you come fearless, it will reward you with beauty; and if you come somewhere in between, it will nudge you toward both. In Lyon, that is exactly the kind of conversation between stage and spectator we are here to host.