Theater Festival - And don't forget to dream

To round off the festival in style, an exceptional show. Not a suggestion. A command. And don't forget to dream - it's the title, it's the program, it's a promise kept from start to finish by Elliot Jénicot, soloist, author and performer of a show that will take you by surprise and never let you go.

It all starts with memories. We rummage through them, shake them up, play with them like old toys found at the bottom of an attic. You try to get rid of them - because they sometimes weigh you down, because they clutter you up, because you'd like to move on. But memories are stubborn. They stick. They cling. And above all - they build us, whether we like it or not.

Elliot Jénicot goes through his memories as one goes through a crazy attic: with curiosity, with tenderness, with an absolutely jubilant sense of detour. Characters appear on his path from who knows where - real life or a corner of the imagination, sometimes it's hard to disentangle the two. Wacky tales, moments of grace, bursts of laughter and silences that carry just the right weight.

Funny, nostalgic and hard-hitting, this solo show is an intimate and universal journey that reminds us of a simple and essential truth: we never really get rid of our memories. We simply learn - and this is quite an art - to dream with them.

A luminous and singular way to close this festival, on a note that will resonate well beyond the curtain call.