Valérie Lemercier

Valérie Lemercier steps onto the stage of L’Olympia in Paris on December 26, 2026 with a show conceived as a playground, where she lines up characters, accents and little everyday scenes. An actress, author and director, she cultivates the solo format with a gallery of figures you meet everywhere: a harried mother, a celebrity on promo tour, a wellness coach, a teacher on the verge of a breakdown, a neighbor who’s a bit too frank. Between portraits she slips in songs, a few dance steps, a gesture that goes off the rails, a silence that sets up the punchline. The text moves fast, the body sets the rhythm, and improvisation slips in with discreet touches without breaking the thread.

The show moves from stand-up to costumed sketch, from a spoken routine to a subverted refrain, always with that taste for concrete observation and light irony. No flash or grand apparatus—rather a dry, precise way of planting a scene, catching a look, and turning a situation inside out. An evening carried by her stage wit and sense of tempo, to be shared in the iconic venue on Boulevard des Capucines.