Mon Héros - Le Complexe, Lyon

Mon Héros at Le Complexe - Salle du Haut

At Le Complexe - Salle du Haut, we are delighted to welcome audiences for Mon Héros, a creation that thrives in the close, conversational setting of our upstairs room. The Salle du Haut is designed for immediacy: a warm rake of seats, a tight stage that keeps performer and audience within each other’s breath, and lighting that can pivot from tender to electric in a beat. That intimacy matters for a work like Mon Héros, where the stakes are personal and the rhythm comes from the performer’s pulse and the crowd’s reactions. Our team has fine-tuned the room for storytelling and laughter alike—clean sightlines, crisp sound, and a pace that lets a silence land as meaningfully as a punchline. If you know our venue, you know we champion projects that balance craft with heart; Mon Héros fits that promise, inviting you into a lived-in world of memories, near-misses, and small victories that feel suddenly epic when shared together in real time.

A portrait of everyday heroism, crafted for the room

Mon Héros unfolds like an intimate confession that grows into a collective celebration, moving between humor and emotion without losing its thread. The performer builds a gallery of “heroes” that could be found in any city street or family kitchen—spirited grandparents, stubborn friends, teachers who changed the course of a day—and does so with a precision that rewards attentive listening. On our stage, the minimalist scenography becomes a canvas: a chair turns into a bus stop, a light shift becomes a childhood afternoon. You can expect a supple tempo, moments of call-and-response with the audience, and a language that is vivid yet accessible, making the room itself a character in the story. We’ve adjusted our acoustics to catch the nuances—the sigh at the end of a sentence, the smile tucked into a line—so that each beat lands with clarity. Whether you come for catharsis or for laughs, the experience is designed to hold both: the quicksilver wit of a seasoned stage voice, and the tenderness of a tale told face-to-face, just a few steps away from the front row.

Current momentum and what you will discover on stage

What excites us most, as a venue, is how alive Mon Héros feels right now. The performer is in a fertile moment of creation, refining the material in front of live audiences and allowing the show to breathe differently from night to night—exactly the kind of craftsmanship that our Salle du Haut was built to support. You’ll recognize the hallmarks of a contemporary stage-maker: agile storytelling, sharply observed details from daily life, playful physicality, and the courage to linger on a truth before twisting it toward a laugh. Between performances, the artist’s work continues to evolve through writing and rehearsals, and that freshness carries into each appearance here. From our vantage point in the wings, we see the way the narrative accumulates—a throwaway remark from the first minutes returns later as a key, a gesture becomes a motif, a casual aside blossoms into a moment of recognition across the room. Mon Héros is not a distant spectacle; it’s a shared encounter. That’s why we’re proud to host it at Le Complexe - Salle du Haut, where the scale and energy of the space help every beat resonate, and where audiences come as they are and leave with stories that feel, for a moment, like their own.