À La Barre

Compagnie du P'tit Ballon is a theatre company directed by Steeve Brunet. It develops theatrical actions that deal with societal issues. The company explores various topics such as imprisonment, justice and violence through shows, interventions in prisons, performance readings or radio creations. The Rouen-based company focuses on memory and forgotten stories, particularly those of women, questioning their rights, visibility and the way their stories are shared.

Ronan Chéneau has written more than forty plays, dance and circus shows, for David Bobée (Ma Couleur Préférée, Djamil Mohamed, My Brazza, Warm) and other companies (El Nucleo, La Poursuite, Cie 144, etc.). His plays have been translated and published in Italian, German, Russian, Bulgarian and Indonesian. As a permanent artist-author of the CDN de Normandie-Rouen, a theater based in Normandy, he has organized the Festival des Langues françaises since 2019 to promote French-speaking playwrights from around the world. À La Barre is his latest play, published by Les Solitaires intempestifs.

Steeve Brunet trained at Scène/Saône in Lyon, then studied Commedia dell'Arte with Carlo Boso. He has worked with a number of companies, including Théâtre et Cie, Théâtre des Crescite, Caliband Théâtre, Commune Idée and Collectif Le Safran. In 2018, he took the helm of Compagnie du P'tit Ballon, where he explores theatrical and radio forms. At the same time, he regularly takes part in film shoots for France 2, Canal+ and M6 and hosts 'Ça n'engage à rien', a monthly podcast devoted to theatrical creation, produced in partnership with the CDN de Normandie-Rouen – a theatre based in Normandy - and Radio HDR.

Text Ronan Chéneau

Director Steeve Brunet

Assistant director Rémi Dessenoix

With Steeve Brunet, Marion Casabianca, Anne Cosmao, Valérie Diome, Adrien Vada

With the insights of Maître Isabelle Delacour, lawyer and women’s rights advisor to the City of Rouen, Maître Yaël Godefroy, criminal lawyer based in Rouen

Text published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs

Production Compagnie du P’tit ballon Executive producer CDN de Normandie-Rouen With the support of DRAC Normandie, Département de la Seine-Maritime, Métropole Rouen Normandie, Direction Régionale aux Droits des Femmes et à l’Egalité, ECFM à Canteleu, Théâtre Charles Dullin à Grand-Quevilly, Centre Culturel André Malraux à Rouen