Theater "Villon la vie", Michel Arbatz

François Villon was born in Paris in 1431. Fatherless, 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 out to be a bad boy, but had a talent for language. At the age of twenty, injured in a fight, he fled Paris and the swift justice system. He returned the following Christmas, with a few accomplices, to steal five hundred écus from the Collège de Navarre. From then on, Villon's short life was divided between wandering, imprisonment and vain attempts to have his poetry recognized by princes. In the end, he was sentenced to be hanged for an obscure affair. At the age of thirty, he appealed, and his sentence was commuted to ten years' banishment from Paris. His whereabouts were completely lost, but before he disappeared, he collected the best of his writings in prison in a poignant and joyous Testament that has influenced hundreds of the world's great poets to this day.
From this Testament, Michel Arbatz has created 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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