Passeport - D'alexis Michalik

Radiant-Bellevue welcomes Alexis Michalik with Passeport

At Radiant-Bellevue, we take pride in presenting artists who rethink what live performance can be, and welcoming Alexis Michalik with Passeport is very much in that spirit. Our audience in Caluire-et-Cuire will discover a new theatrical proposition from a creator whose storytelling energy and craft have reshaped contemporary French theatre. From our stage, designed to support swift changes of rhythm and atmosphere, the immediacy of Michalik’s direction will meet the intimacy of our hall, inviting spectators into a narrative that moves with agility and purpose. We are preparing the space to serve the show’s fluidity—so that shifts in time, place, and point of view unfold with clarity and momentum—and to highlight the precision of an ensemble driven by text, imagination, and the shared breath of a live crowd. For long-time admirers and first-time visitors alike, Passeport at Radiant-Bellevue promises an evening where theatrical language becomes an adventure: the kind of event that reminds us why stages exist—to gather, to feel, and to leave with the mind newly open.

Inside the world of Passeport and the artist’s current momentum

Passeport bears the signatures audiences cherish in an Alexis Michalik creation: compelling narrative propulsion, multifaceted characters, and an inventive choreography of scenes that allows stories to cascade into one another like chapters of a living novel. Without giving away its surprises, the piece looks outward—toward journeys, borders, and the accidental intersections that shape a life—and inward, toward the private choices that mark identity. Expect a dramaturgy that favors swift transitions and the music of language, with humor and poignancy in close conversation. At Radiant-Bellevue, that dynamic finds a natural home. The sightlines and acoustic warmth of our room support the pace, the crispness of the dialogue, and the near-cinematic montage effect that Michalik is known to achieve onstage. Our technical team is focused on enhancing the interplay of light, shadow, and movement so that each shift appears inevitable, almost effortless, as if the story were writing itself in real time. The result is an experience that feels both large in scope and intimate in emotion, accessible to newcomers yet textured enough for seasoned theatre-goers to savor.

For our audience, presenting Passeport also means welcoming a major contemporary voice at a moment of fertile artistic activity. Alexis Michalik continues to see his repertoire resonate across France and beyond: Edmond remains a phenomenon for its wit and backstage élan; Le Porteur d’Histoire sustains its cult status with audiences drawn to its labyrinth of tales; Le Cercle des Illusionnistes keeps dazzling with its blend of magic and memory; Intra Muros offers a powerful meditation on theatre as a space for transformation; and Une histoire d’amour has moved crowds with its intimate, clear-eyed tenderness. He navigates between stage and screen with assurance—the film Edmond introduced his dramaturgical flair to cinema—while the ongoing life of his plays in repertory and on tour speaks to their staying power. This convergence of projects gives Passeport special voltage: it arrives not as an isolated venture but as the next chapter of an evolving conversation about how stories travel, how we pass from one world to another, and how theatre can hold those passages in the present tense. Radiant-Bellevue is honored to be the place where that conversation meets our community, in a shared evening that advances the dialogue between artist and audience.