Pierre-Emmanuel Barré

On October 8, 2026, Pierre-Emmanuel Barré arrives at Le K - Kabaret in Reims with Come-back, a play he both wrote and performs. He projects himself into 2031, written off as a has‑been, determined to get back on stage by cobbling together a new show. One thorny question remains: come back, yes, but to say what?

Known for his dark humour and confrontational tone, Barré uses this meta pretext to dissect the craft, the egos, the making of jokes and, in the process, the era that feeds them. Politics, society, religion—nothing is sacred—but the aim is not gratuitous provocation: it’s the writing that leads, terse and precise, delivered with deliberate bad faith and a knack for lines that land.

Visual effects, sounds and other tinkering disrupt the one‑on‑one, like a live test bench. We watch ideas being born, contradicting themselves, derailing and returning in new forms. Barré constantly pushes the action forward, turning doubt into comic material and the fear of the void into a through‑line. Between offhand confessions, razor‑sharp punchlines and cutting asides, Come-back tells as much the difficulty of reinventing oneself as the persistent pleasure of going back to work, microphone in hand.