Pas Dodo - Théâtre à L'ouest - Lyon

Welcoming Pas Dodo to THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON

At THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON, we prepare our stage for the kind of sleepless, high-voltage energy that only Pas Dodo can unleash. Our room’s intimate sightlines, responsive acoustics, and warm, brick-and-velvet character are built for comedy that thrives on quick turns, audience glances, and the heartbeat of a crowd ready to stay up past bedtime. Pas Dodo arrives as a live experience designed for proximity: a comedian who works close to the audience, pivots on a whisper, and calls the room into the joke. In Lyon, where nights are long and conversation lingers, this show taps right into the city’s nocturnal pulse. Expect the kind of playful crowd work that turns a late train into a punchline and a phone’s notification into a plot twist. We’ve tuned light cues for split-second shifts from confessional to mischievous, and our team has shaped every technical detail to support the rhythms of a performance about wakefulness, worry, and the beautiful absurdity of not switching off.

A restless new chapter in the artist’s journey

Pas Dodo lands at THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON at a moment when the artist’s creative momentum is unmistakable. Over recent months, the comedian has rolled out a fresh cycle of short-form bits online, road-testing material in clubs and slipping early versions into late-night sets. You may have caught glimpses of new sketches such as “Réveil Fantôme,” where a phantom alarm becomes a full-blown conspiracy of snooze buttons; “Nuit Blanche à Lyon,” a love letter to sidewalks, kebabs, and tram stops at improbable hours; “Parents Zombie,” on the delirious poetry of interrupted nights; and “Le Blues de la Veilleuse,” a tender ode to the glow that keeps us company at 3 a.m. Pas Dodo assembles these fragments into a full evening, giving them space to breathe, collide, and erupt with audience input. The result is a show that moves like a playlist of nocturnal states: alert, drifting, wired, reflective, and gleefully off-kilter. Here at THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON, we’re proud to be the Lyonais stop where this material deepens, sharpens, and meets a room primed for spontaneous detours.

What happens on stage in Pas Dodo is comedy as cartography: the artist maps the places we go when our eyes won’t close and our inner narrator refuses to clock out. From the opening salvo “Minuit Moins Cinq,” where the day’s to-do list mutates into a chorus of second guesses, to “Café à 22h,” a cautionary tale disguised as a ritual, and “Notifications à 3h17,” a kaleidoscope of buzzing screens and buzzing minds, the setlist keeps tilting reality until the familiar becomes riotously strange. In the hands of this performer, an elevator mirror becomes a confidant, a neighbor’s footsteps morph into folklore, and Lyon itself—its bridges, its riverlight, its late buses—turns into a cast of characters. Our team at THEATRE A L'OUEST - LYON leans into that theatricality with cinematic dimmers, crisp sound imaging for whispered asides, and a stage picture that allows the comic to sculpt silence as precisely as punchlines. Whether you arrive with friends for a lively night out or solo for an intimate rendezvous with sleeplessness, Pas Dodo is the live-wire encounter you will talk about long after the house lights rise—and possibly, if the title has its way, long after you should be asleep.