Anne Roumanoff « L'expérience de la vie »

Anne Roumanoff returns with L’expérience de la vie at the Théâtre des Mathurins in Paris on April 26, 2026. She dissects what it means to “have experience” when maturity flirts with the urge to try again, observing with her clear-eyed view the transformations that upend our daily lives: new language, shifting behaviours, emerging professions.

On stage she sketches familiar, contemporary figures. An American couples coach comes to unsettle our certainties, fairy tales are rewritten in light of 2026, influencers inspire a sharp little poem, and current political and social events become material for comic detours. Her humour retains that blend of distance and intimacy that speaks to every generation, with finely honed texts and a sense of rhythm that constantly reinvigorates the material.

A tightly crafted show, L’expérience de la vie proceeds like a deliberate reconstruction: a woman who has lived, who delights in deconstructing her reference points to better understand the present. Directed by Gil Galliot, it serves a lively, lucid one-woman show that makes resonate our habits, contradictions, and ways of talking about the world.