Marine Leonardi - Mauvaise Graine - Tournée

Marine Leonardi brings Mauvaise Graine to Lyon

We are delighted to welcome Marine Leonardi and her Mauvaise Graine – Tournée to Bourse du Travail Lyon, where the energy of a live audience meets an artist in full creative flight. From our vantage point, what makes this date feel special is the timing: Leonardi arrives with a voice sharpened by the road, a sense of timing honed by countless encounters with audiences, and a keen appetite for new material that blooms on stage. Mauvaise Graine leans into her reputation for fearless honesty and playful provocation: the “bad seed” who turns every taboo on its head and every family anecdote into a mirror for modern life. Expect quick pivots between razor-edged observation and warm, confessional storytelling; vivid characters sketched in seconds; and that conspiratorial sense of “us” that only a seasoned stand-up can sustain. In Lyon, she sets out to make the room her accomplice—interpreting everyday chaos with the swagger of someone who knows mischief is often the straightest line to truth.

Right now in her artistic journey

Leonardi’s current momentum is unmistakable. Between tour stops, she has kept fans engaged with a flurry of short-form comedy drops and longer-form bits that showcase the breadth of her voice: sharp, empathetic, and unafraid to get personal. Recent crowd-favorite sketches—shared widely across her socials and live excerpts—include Entretien d’embauche, where the rituals of job hunting collide with a gleeful refusal to conform; Colocation: Règlement intérieur, a house-share nightmare turned hilarious treaty on boundaries; and La fête de famille, a carousel of relatives rendered with affectionate precision. Beyond those viral bits, she has cultivated an unmistakable on-stage grammar: the rebellious kid who grew into a storyteller, the confidante who lets the audience in on the joke, and the satirist who can turn a throwaway moment at the supermarket into a full-fledged set piece. That mix of intimacy and bite is precisely what makes Mauvaise Graine feel so of-the-moment: a snapshot of where her head and heart are artistically, shared at the perfect time in Lyon.

What audiences can expect from Mauvaise Graine in our city is a set that breathes and shape-shifts with the room. Leonardi’s themes—family dynamics, the pressures of “being good,” class codes that linger where you least expect them, the stubborn resilience of childhood habits—are handled with both boldness and care. She pulls laughter from awkwardness, then flips the angle to find something tender where we didn’t expect it. The writing is lean, the rhythm musical, and the physicality precise: a raised eyebrow that detonates a punchline, a half-turn that becomes a whole character. There are moments of joyful crowd interplay and others in which the silence of anticipation becomes part of the craft. From the first minutes, Mauvaise Graine builds a playful conspiracy with the audience, a pact that allows Leonardi to press into uncomfortable truths and then pull us back with a perfectly weighted tag. It’s the kind of night that feels both handcrafted for Lyon and fully plugged into her larger tour, a living ledger of everything she’s learning on the road—refreshed, risk-taking, and ready to be shared here at Bourse du Travail Lyon.