Mahaut - Drama Queen - Tournée

Mahaut sets her sights on Lyon with Drama Queen

From our vantage point in the heart of Lyon, we are thrilled to roll out the red carpet for Mahaut and her irresistible one-woman show, Drama Queen. Our team has followed the groundswell around her for months: a voice that blends razor-edged observation with theatrical flair, a stage presence that oscillates between playful vulnerability and fierce comedic timing, and an audience that discovers itself laughing at moments it didn’t know it needed to share. Drama Queen lands here with the crackle of an event—an intimate encounter with a performer who treats the stage like her confessional and her playground. Expect a night that moves briskly from confession to provocation, as Mahaut leans into the contradictions of modern life—ambition and anxiety, romance and self-sufficiency, grandeur and awkwardness—then flips them into punchlines that feel as personal as they are universal.

Welcoming Mahaut also means embracing a new temperature in Lyon’s live-comedy calendar. Her language is contemporary and cinematic; she plays with silences, pivots, and crescendos like a director who edits in real time. We’ve designed the room for the kind of precision she favors: clear sightlines for nuanced facial acting, fast, clean sound for rapid-fire callbacks, and a lighting rig tuned for sudden flips from intimate confessional to glorious melodrama. There’s a reason Drama Queen has become a can’t-miss for audiences who love stand-up but also crave storytelling—the show lets Mahaut sculpt a character you’ll recognize from your own inner voice, then pushes it to the edge, where catharsis becomes loud, joyful laughter.

An artist in full momentum

What excites us most about hosting Mahaut is how current her art feels. She is part of a generation that writes onstage and online simultaneously, crafting material that lives as deftly in a tight club set as it does in a clipped, shareable video. Her recent visibility has expanded well beyond the circuit: energized crowds, word-of-mouth that travels fast, and an audience that arrives already quoting its favorite lines. Appearances across the francophone stand-up ecosystem—think sharp, high-energy turns on Paname Stand Up and a spotlight at the Montreux Comedy Festival—have sharpened her instincts and fed the appetite for a full-length experience. And in Drama Queen, she delivers exactly that: a thematically linked run of bits that build on each other like chapters, punctuated by audacious asides and playful crowd work that keeps the room electric.

From our Lyon stage, we’re especially attuned to how Mahaut stacks contrasts: self-deprecation against a streak of regal bravado; controlled writing against gleeful theatrical excess. She invites the audience into her universe of romantic misadventures, family myths, therapy breakthroughs, perfectionist spirals, and those late-night catastrophes that only become funny once the sun returns. The show’s palette is deliciously wide—pop culture riffs, micro-dramas pulled from the group chat, social anxiety turned operatic—yet never feels scattered; each thread snaps back to a core question: how do we live honestly with our appetites, flaws, and expectations without losing our sense of humor? It’s the sort of hour that leaves a wake—inside jokes blooming all the way to the tram stop, and a sense that Lyon just witnessed an artist stepping decisively into her prime.

Presenting Drama Queen here also means shaping an experience around Mahaut’s rhythm. We’ve tuned our room for crisp dynamics and the occasional flamboyant cue, knowing how she punctuates the show with theatrical beats and bold shifts of tone. Expect a night that rewards attentiveness—callbacks that ricochet, details that resurface to topple assumptions, and a finale that makes the title feel like a mission statement. For Lyon audiences hungry for stand-up that’s bigger than the sum of the jokes, Mahaut arrives not just with momentum but with a fully authored voice. Our role is simple: give that voice a stage where every flourish lands, where every confession finds a laugh, and where Drama Queen can unfurl at full scale.