Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

At Le Boui-Boui: Yvain presents pas courageux

At Le Boui-Boui, we’re delighted to welcome Yvain with pas courageux, a show whose intimate, confessional energy fits our stage perfectly. In our room, where you can hear every breath, aside, and under-the-lip mutter, Yvain’s art of timing becomes a live-wire experience: he leans into awkward silences, glances shared with the first rows, and that delicious moment when the audience realizes it recognizes itself in the story. pas courageux is not a victory lap about bravery; it is a precise, playful anatomy of hesitation—how we stall before a phone call, rehearse conversations in our head on the tram, or invent noble excuses to dodge tiny risks. From our vantage point in the wings, we see the craft up close: the way he builds a premise from everyday frictions—administrative labyrinths, social micro-anxieties, the dread of the unknown—and then threads callbacks that make the hour feel like one living organism. It’s the kind of show that thrives at Le Boui-Boui, where proximity amplifies surprise and the laughter ricochets in waves.

Artist spotlight and current buzz

Our programming team has followed Yvain’s momentum across the circuit with real interest: the material now gathered in pas courageux shows a writer-performer refining an unmistakable voice. The current buzz around smart, personal stand-up in France has created a shared vocabulary among our audience; if you’ve gravitated in recent months toward the spirit of live comedy highlighted by Jamel Comedy Club, the international snapshots of Montreux Comedy, or the club culture seen around Paname Comedy Club, you’ll recognize the ethos here—tight writing, fearless self-derision, and an open conversation with the room. Yvain’s actuality is one of continuous sharpening: new tags tried in late-night slots, fresh angles on the same core theme of “courage” versus “comfort,” and a live rapport that keeps each performance agile. As a venue, we especially appreciate the way he calibrates rhythm—knowing when to let the laugh crest, when to cut clean to the next image, and when to let a pause bloom into a reveal. pas courageux lands at Le Boui-Boui as a living document of this moment in his artistic journey: personal without being confessional for its own sake, precise while still feeling gloriously unguarded.

What should you expect in the room? A generous hour that balances storytelling with quick-jab punchlines, crowd-aware banter with carefully planted setups. Yvain draws portraits so specific—a friend who schedules bravery like a dentist appointment, a family ritual that elevates minor errands into quests, the inner monologue that picks the worst time to become a motivational speaker—that they boomerang into the universal. Our stage team notices how pas courageux uses spatial play: a step downstage to confide, a pivot and a raised eyebrow to reframe a scene, a subtle reset to launch a new thread. Themes loop and recombine: performative heroism, bureaucratic minotaurs, the social tightrope of group chats, and the tiny domestic epics that we wage with appliances and alarms. In the acoustics of Le Boui-Boui, the craft really shows—those soft landings after a big laugh, the crisp consonants that make a tag snap, the relaxed confidence that invites the audience to lean forward. Whether you come alone, with friends, or as part of your office’s unofficial “let’s-be-brave-later” club, pas courageux at Le Boui-Boui is a chance to watch a comic mind think in real time—and to feel an entire room breathe with it.