
Zola's "L'Assommoir", Gervaise and her life's journey of pitfalls and disappointments, hopes, plans, joys and love. A fierce determination to pull through, and an unshakeable faith in the future. A powerful one-man show!
By Pierrette Dupoyer
By JoëlleDavid, Cie Nicol-David
Gervaise, a character from Zola's novel "L'Assommoir", recounts her life's journey, full of pitfalls and disappointments, but also filled with hopes, plans, joys and love. Faced with the adversity of life and society in the 19th century, she displays a fierce determination to get by, matched only by her unfailing honesty and faith in the future. Gervaise has done it all: worked, given birth, hoped, suffered and loved. In a word, she lived.
By JoëlleDavid, Cie Nicol-David
Gervaise, a character from Zola's novel "L'Assommoir", recounts her life's journey, full of pitfalls and disappointments, but also filled with hopes, plans, joys and love. Faced with the adversity of life and society in the 19th century, she displays a fierce determination to get by, matched only by her unfailing honesty and faith in the future. Gervaise has done it all: worked, given birth, hoped, suffered and loved. In a word, she lived.
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Accessible for self-propelled wheelchairs
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On 29 March 2026
On 29 March 2026
Adultyoung people: €10
children: €8
children: €8
€16.00
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On 29 March 2026
- 17:00 at 18:20
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