Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we are delighted to welcome Yvain with his new hour, Pas courageux, a sharp, unpretentious plunge into everyday nerves, fragile bravado, and the tiny fears that sabotage our biggest plans. Our intimate Lyon room is built for this kind of comedy: the stage is close, the laughter ricochets, and the performer can hear every gasp, giggle, and knowing sigh. Yvain leans into that proximity with confident timing and a candid, conspiratorial tone, nudging the audience to admit what scares them too—meeting strangers, phoning the bank, waiting for medical results, or simply being seen trying. In Pas courageux, his craft shows in the clarity of the setups, the quick pivots, and the art of returning to a premise hours later for a bigger payoff. It is a show that feels both meticulously built and energetically alive, exactly the kind of work Le Boui-Boui loves to champion.

Onstage now, and what’s next for Yvain

Yvain arrives at Le Boui-Boui in a fertile artistic moment: the material is new, the voice is focused, and the crowd work is flexible enough to let the room breathe. Over recent months he has honed a run of compact sketches that now thread into Pas courageux with satisfying rhythm—pieces he’s been trying under titles like Ascenseur en panne, Rendez-vous chez le dentiste, Le voisin du 3e, Mode avion, and Panique au guichet. Within these bits he dissects the social theater of everyday life: how we pretend to be brave at precisely the wrong time, how tiny bureaucratic rituals turn us into reluctant actors, how courage is sometimes just finding a sentence that gets us through the moment. From our vantage point, the set shows an artist consolidating his best habits—clear premises, rhythmical callbacks, and a generous dose of surprise—while laying foundations for the next creative steps.

Because Le Boui-Boui privileges closeness, Pas courageux lands with a particular electricity here. Yvain uses the room’s scale to test how far a silence can stretch, how quickly a whisper becomes a punchline, and how an audience’s shared recognition can flip into pure silliness. Expect nimble improvisations with the front rows, deft tangents that loop back into the spine of the show, and those satisfying end-of-set echoes that send a laugh around the room twice. Our team shapes the experience with warm lighting and crisp sound so that every pause, aside, and grin reads clearly from the first seat to the last. This is the ideal setting for a comedian forging a cohesive new hour: the themes tie together, the jokes breathe, and each performance gains an extra layer from the audience’s unique energy. We are proud to stage this chapter of Yvain’s journey in Lyon and to give Pas courageux the closeness it deserves.