Yvain Dans Pas Courageux - Le Boui-boui, Lyon

At Le Boui-Boui: Yvain brings pas courageux to our intimate stage

At Le Boui-Boui, we take pride in being the kind of room where laughter reverberates as closely as the applause, and where every performer can feel the heartbeat of the audience. That is exactly why we are thrilled to host Yvain with pas courageux, a show tailor‑made for an intimate, quick‑witted, high‑contact setting like ours in the center of Lyon. From the first beat, Yvain thrives on proximity—reading faces, catching whispers, and turning small details into big comedic payoffs. Our low stage and tight seating make collaboration between artist and audience effortless, and pas courageux exploits that dynamic with playful crowd moments, sly asides, and bursts of improv that feel born right here, in our room, on our night. The atmosphere at Le Boui-Boui—warm lights, responsive acoustics, and a nimble technical team—gives Yvain the perfect toolbox to layer timing, silence, and surprise, and to stretch his stories until they snap into laughter.

pas courageux is built like a conversation that spirals into confession, a portrait of everyday bravery sketched through fumbles, dodges, and the tiny white flags we wave without noticing. Yvain’s writing shines in crafty set‑pieces that loop back on themselves, revealing punchlines only after he’s made us complicit. In the heart of the show, you’ll catch standout bits such as Le Héros du Dimanche, where domestic victories swell into epic sagas; Mode Avion, a lovingly forensic takedown of our dependency on the “off” button; and Courage en Kit, a running gag about how we outsource our grit to apps, rituals, and magical thinking. He plays with rhythm—snappy observations flipping into vivid storytelling—then loosens the gears with spontaneous crowd work, before snapping into a meticulously planted payoff. The pulse of Le Boui-Boui—close quarters, instant feedback—lets these shifts land with precision, ensuring that each beat of pas courageux feels handcrafted for the room and the moment.

Yvain right now: a comic voice sharpening in real time

From our vantage point at Le Boui-Boui, Yvain is in that exhilarating phase where a comic voice is not just established—it’s expanding. He arrives with the momentum of a writer who keeps refining the edges of his material night after night, and a performer who relishes testing brave new turns in front of live audiences. Beyond pas courageux, his recent slate of pieces shows a knack for extracting big laughs from small frictions: La Bonne Excuse, a playful taxonomy of the alibis we deploy to dodge discomfort; GPS Intérieur, which maps anxiety like a misbehaving navigation app; and Le Bouton Panique, a kinetic closer that winds to a cathartic release. These recurring bits pop differently at Le Boui-Boui, where the room’s intimacy allows Yvain to calibrate eye contact, pauses, and digressions with surgical precision. For us, the thrill is watching this material breathe—how a whisper can become a roar here, how a throwaway tag becomes the night’s favorite line, and how pas courageux, in our space, acquires new shades of risk and tenderness with each performance.