Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

Le Boui-Boui welcomes Yvain in Pas Courageux

From the vantage point of our intimate stage at Le Boui-Boui, we are thrilled to host Yvain for his new hour, Pas Courageux. Our room is designed for proximity and precision: the audience sits close, the sightlines are crisp, and every pause and raised eyebrow carries across the space. That closeness is exactly where Yvain thrives. His humor is built on everyday dilemmas, prickly little fears, and the small acts of avoidance we recognize in ourselves—material that blossoms when shared in a venue where performer and audience can exchange energy at arm’s length. Pas Courageux is paced like a conversation with momentum: confessions give way to tangents, observations crescendo into punchlines, and every callback earns a laugh that feels both communal and personal. We shape the night to match his rhythm—tight sound, warm light, and a nimble stage crew—so the performance can breathe, adjust, and sharpen in real time with the crowd that gathers here in Lyon.

An hour sharpened for Lyon nights

What makes Pas Courageux feel so alive in our space is how clearly Yvain leans into the craft of structure. Expect a show that unfolds in vivid, self-contained moments—miniatures with playful headings that signpost the journey. At Le Boui-Boui, those moments land best when they arrive like surprises, yet it’s worth highlighting a few titles he has been toying with as chapter points inside the live experience: “Petit Manuel de Lâcheté,” a gleeful taxonomy of avoidance; “Héros du Canapé,” where bravery meets the remote control; “Courage en Kit,” a send-up of self-help bravado; and “Plan B, C, et Panique,” a comic spiral of contingency planning. These sketches echo the DNA of Pas Courageux—flashes of self-mockery, sudden logic twists, and the kind of honest vulnerability that seems to dissolve the fourth wall. As a venue, we love how these segments invite laughter that lingers; you can feel the room leaning in as he reframes familiar fears, then releases them with a grin.

Yvain’s current artistic momentum is all about refinement: tightening the beats, experimenting with timing, and letting the audience’s reactions sculpt the contours of the hour. In our setting, he’ll often push a premise a little further, test an alternate tag, or slow a story to let the silence hum before the laugh lands. Pas Courageux benefits from this live, iterative process, transforming relatable hesitations—phone calls not made, opportunities sidestepped, declarations swallowed—into comic set pieces that feel both personal and precise. We support that elasticity with an atmosphere built for nuance: discreet technical cues, a room that rewards whispers and wallops alike, and a schedule that favors focus. For spectators at Le Boui-Boui, this means seeing Yvain at his most immediate and attentive, balancing crowd-work with razor-edged writing. Whether he’s slipping into “Répondeur de la Maturité” to mock the voicemail of adulthood, or teasing the ritual of stalling in “Trois Excuses et Demie,” the evening holds together as a single, vivid portrait of modern hesitation—magnified, laughed at, and, for an hour, joyfully shared.