Festival A-out

A variety of aesthetics, affordable prices.

Come laugh, be moved, and encourage these passionate people who have only one goal: to make you dream!

You’ll find here:
THEATRE DES VENTS – 63, rue Guillaume Puy – 06 11 28 25 42:
– From August 1st to 8th at 19pm: A treasure beneath the vegetable garden
A family comedy that takes place on Christmas Eve and the following morning. This time should be warm, unifying, almost sacred. Yet, behind the Christmas meal, the gifts, and the customary smiles, lies a delicious secret: a treasure discovered beneath the vegetable garden!
This play explores, with humor and a touch of acidity, what money reveals—or exacerbates—in family relationships. The parents, not given to displays of affection and more attached to their treasure than to their own daughters, lock themselves into a series of lies designed to justify their extravagant purchases.
which their children gradually discover as the play unfolds.
Around them gravitate two generations who sense that something is amiss. The granddaughter, with her spontaneity and unfiltered gaze, almost unwittingly becomes the revealer of adult hypocrisies.
Between family secrets, misunderstandings and plot twists, this funny and accessible show, performed by five actors including a 10-year-old girl, will entertain a family audience.

– August 2nd to 4th at 21pm: All the women in your lives
Four women, four strangers, an inevitable encounter.
“All the women in your lives” explores the richness and uniqueness of women’s journeys through a completely improvised play.
This is not a manifesto: it is a mirror, a reflection of our lives, our chance encounters, our collisions, our invisible connections.

– August 5th to 7th at 21pm: High Lifes
“Hauts de Vies” takes place in a café, Lucien's café, a discreet witness to all sorts of stories and encounters. Slices of life from ordinary men and women.
It is in this world that the audience is invited to journey into the heart of human relationships, to experience humanity at its most touching. With humor and poetry, the actors recount everyday events, highlighting the beauty and uniqueness that emerges from apparent ordinariness.
Sometimes through words, sometimes through their bodies, the various characters who push open the door of Lucien's café leave behind a little of their worries, their joys and their hopes.

THEATRE TREMPLIN – 8 ter rue Cornue – 06 15 68 11 69
– From August 1st to 8th at 19pm: Spin Off
Giving light to the characters in the shadows, the forgotten, the simple objects, those that we never consider, that is the objective of this entirely improvised play.
And it is you, the public, who will choose, from among those who did not have what it takes, the new heroines and heroes of the Spin-Off!

– August 1st at 21pm – August 2nd at 17pm – August 3rd at 21pm: At each meeting
A theatrical and musical show that highlights 5 different stories, where two characters who are complete opposites will be forced to meet.
Caught in outlandish, absurd or totally unexpected situations, they will have to learn to work together… even if it means seeing their destiny take a direction they hadn't foreseen.
Blending theatre, song, dance and improvisation, this show brings artistic disciplines into dialogue in a collective and generous energy.
A dazzling mix, funny and touching, which might just make you want to join the Art'cadémy adventure next year!

OPTIMIST THEATER – 50, rue Guillaume Puy – 04 65 87 92 15:
– August 1st and 2nd at 17pm and from August 4th to 8th at 21pm: Club Med
WARNING: Logic and common sense have officially resigned.
Welcome to Club Med, not the one from the postcards, but the one where artists share a house, all members of La compagnie du Med'arts.
Their mission: To stage THE play of the year. Their reality: A series of catastrophes transforming every attempt to manage a private life into an unintentional theatrical scene, and every rehearsal into a hilarious failure.
Between chaotic rehearsals, uncontrollable fits of laughter and the anxiety of daily life, this band of traveling performers is on the verge of implosion… or a stroke of genius.
What we promise you: Explosive situations and proof that to make people laugh on stage, you first have to suffer a lot, a lot in your kitchen! "...but especially with good friends.

– From August 1st to 8th at 19pm: A Casual Attitude
An absurd and poetic show with two clowns. It bursts in and turns things upside down, It's nothing with air all around. It doesn't seem like it… But surprisingly, it means a lot. Filled with mischief and poetry, With silence and words… It's just between them… and that's no small thing!
All audiences, accessible from 7 years old

– August 1, 2 and 3 at 21 p.m.: At the end of their rope
"A playwright at the end of their rope receives a journalist for an interview that could revive their career. However, in the theatre, appearances can be deceiving..."
A comedy with biting humor.

CABARET LE MARSEILLAIS – 25 ter, rue Thiers – 06 18 62 31 38
– August 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8 at 19 p.m.: Sarclo
A poet-revolutionary…
A sharp, vibrant writing style that sweeps us away into a unique universe…
Sarclo is a great traveler of words…
Without taboos, without inhibition, he sweeps us away into the spiral of his musical world…

– From August 1st to 8th at 21pm: Tenor Show
With his powerful voice, charisma and infectious passion, Tenor Di Bettino invites you to experience a unique musical adventure with "TENOR'S show".
This show blends the greatest opera arias, essential Italian songs, musical comedy classics, and international standards.
TENOR'S show promises an evening rich in emotions where the Tenor's voice elevates the most beautiful melodies of the repertoire…

– August 3 and 5 at 19 p.m.: Closed Doors with Violette, or the Confessions of a Little Demon
Abducted by aliens, flirting with the Devil who doesn't want her, or asking a stupid question to Saint-Exupéry, arguing with Monsieur Seguin, and living in a… cube.
Violette tells you about her unusual love affairs and hilarious experiences, her famous astral journey, her wacky descent into Hell, her dizzying Kundalini awakening:
20 texts, 18 musical pieces, and short dance choreographies, initiatory tales embodied by a slam poet, actress, writer and composer, MAO dancer and teacher of Argentine tango, who sometimes spits her venom, sometimes coats you with the nectar of the gods and goddesses of Olympus.
Come at your own risk, for the poetry of this young lady from Avignon is indelible!
A recital performance combining slam poetry and dramatic art with a few dance steps:
A Close Encounter with Violette, or the Confessions of a Little Demon
Audience: 16+

THEATRE DU REMPART – 56, rue du rempart Saint-Lazare – 06 59 44 71 41
– August 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 at 19 p.m.: Wild State
The November 2015 attacks in Paris marked a tragic turning point in the contemporary history of France and beyond. That night, violence struck at the very heart of the capital, leaving 130 dead and hundreds wounded. In the days that followed, a climate of suspicion and anxiety took hold, stifling daily life under the weight of fear.
Gathering places, once synonymous with conviviality, have become spaces of anxiety. Every forgotten bag, every suspicious noise could trigger a wave of panic. This underlying tension has transformed the way citizens perceive one another, creating a climate of lasting psychological insecurity.
Faced with the incomprehensible, fear of the other has sometimes been fueled by prejudice and unfair generalizations. Some, gripped by terror, have sought scapegoats in difference, stoking mistrust of entire communities. This instinctive reaction, while understandable in a context of shock, has brought to light a latent social divide, revealing how fear can become fertile ground for stereotypes and exclusion.
In the shadow of tragedy, the light of compassion and brotherhood endured, proving that humanity does not die under threat, but sometimes strengthens itself in adversity.
However, rebuilding trust and dialogue has been a difficult path. How can we regain a sense of security when the unthinkable has become reality? How can we engage in calm dialogue in a society where the pain is still raw and the wounds have barely healed?
Finally, these events highlighted the complexity of human emotions in the face of the unknown and the brutality of reality. Fear, anger, sadness, compassion, and resilience intertwined, painting a profound and contrasting emotional landscape. Each person, in their own way, had to confront this violence, try to understand it, and come to terms with it without ever justifying it.
Between fear and hope, fragility and strength, this tragedy has reminded us how capable humanity is of the worst… but also of the best.

– August 3, 4, 6 and 8 at 21 p.m.: The Package
When the world collapses, the important thing is not what we can save, but what we cannot get rid of.
We laugh. A lot. Until the masks fall.

– August 7 at 21 p.m.: The wacky cabaret
Inspired by the world of freak shows, the Crazy Cabaret is a wacky, absurd, and hilarious comedy. Come follow the bearded lady, Mr. Muscle, the evil twins, the fortune teller, "God," and all their sidekicks, as original as they are endearing! They perform a revue in which they string together—in their own unique way—sketches from the classic and contemporary repertoire. We then find them backstage and in their everyday lives, perhaps even more absurd than the revue itself… An ode to tolerance and living together.

L'ATELIER FLORENTIN – 28, rue Guillaume Puy – 04 84 51 07 00:
– 4 and 6 at 19 p.m.: Closed Doors with Violette, or the Confessions of a Little Demon
Abducted by aliens, flirting with the Devil who doesn't want her, or asking a stupid question to Saint-Exupéry, arguing with Monsieur Seguin, and living in a… cube.
Violette tells you about her unusual love affairs and hilarious experiences, her famous astral journey, her wacky descent into Hell, her dizzying Kundalini awakening:
20 texts, 18 musical pieces, and short dance choreographies, initiatory tales embodied by a slam poet, actress, writer and composer, MAO dancer and teacher of Argentine tango, who sometimes spits her venom, sometimes coats you with the nectar of the gods and goddesses of Olympus.
Come at your own risk, for the poetry of this young lady from Avignon is indelible!
A recital performance combining slam poetry and dramatic art with a few dance steps:
A Close Encounter with Violette, or the Confessions of a Little Demon
Audience: 16+

– August 5 at 19 p.m.: One day I was a doctor
Or, as the title suggests, "The Tribulations of a Passionate Doctor."
In this one-man show, I recount anecdotes that have punctuated my professional life. I began my medical studies 50 years ago; medicine wasn't what it is today. Times change, but was it better? I don't know; it was different. But that's not the point of this show. I take an amused look back at the adventures I've experienced over these 50 years. Most are funny, sometimes the laughter is a little wry, but always tinged with gratitude for the training I received at medical school and for my 37 years of practicing as a family doctor—the best job in the world.
Everything in it is true!
Nicole and I wrote the script, and Nicole handled the directing and technical aspects. It's a show that falls somewhere between a "slice of life" and "stand-up comedy," but where laughter remains the best medicine.

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