La lente et difficile agonie du crapaud buffle sur le socle patriarcal

The pedestal crumbles under the weight of a monster gasping for breath. The Akté theater company delivers a scathing satire with an anthological reenactment of Alain Finkielkraut’s program *Répliques* on France Culture. Amid liberating laughter, we take pleasure in watching the old world exit the stage. An unmissable theatrical catharsis!

Facing off against philosopher Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, essayist Jean-Michel Delacompte and his host embody, on December 4, 2021, the pathetic figures of an old order. Lacking arguments, their croaking fills the space to drown out the clarity of discourse. It is the rhetoric of emptiness, the background noise that shouts itself hoarse. And when words are no longer enough, the staging—with surgical precision—reveals the beast exuding its venom: distilled contempt, condescension cloaked in high culture, and blackmail about the end of civilization?

• Type: Cultural