Theater "Villon la vie," Michel Arbatz

François Villon was born in Paris in 1431. Orphaned by his father, his mother entrusted him at the age of seven to Canon Villon, who gave him his name and made him a bachelor. A poor student, he turned into a bad boy but was gifted in languages. At the age of twenty, wounded in a fight, he fled Paris and summary justice. He returned the following year at Christmas to steal, with a few accomplices, five hundred écus from the Collège de Navarre. From that moment on, Villon's short life was divided between wandering, prison, and vain attempts to have his poetry recognized by princes. He was eventually sentenced to hang for an obscure affair. He was thirty years old and appealed: his sentence was commuted to ten years' banishment from Paris. All trace of him was then lost, but before disappearing, he compiled the best of his writings in prison in a poignant and joyful Testament that has influenced hundreds of great poets around the world to this day.
Michel Arbatz has turned this Testament into a modern show full of energy and surprises, a real challenge for an actor-singer. He is accompanied on guitar by Olivier-Roman Garcia.
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