Il ne m'est jamais rien arrivé: Vincent Dedienne adapts Jean-Luc Lagarce's diary for the stage

Jean Luc Lagarce is one of the most widely-performed contemporary playwrights in France today. And for good reason, his plays are sold out. From January 23, 2025, Vincent Dedienne takes the ingenious gamble of exploring Jean-Luc Lagarce 's diary on stage in Il ne m'est jamais rien arrivé, a one-man show at the Théâtre de l'Atelier.

Who really was Jean-Luc Lagarce? Vincent Dedienne (winner of the Molière 2024 for best actor in private theater) delves into the intimate and profound reflections in the diary of the successful playwright, who died too soon. In Il ne m'est jamais rien arrivé, his diaries reveal the soul of a young man oscillating between humor and gravity, living between Paris and Besançon in the 80s.

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Marked by a solitary existence tinged with romanticism, Jean-Luc Lagarce describes his obsession with theater, while witnessing the emergence of AIDS and the deaths of iconic figures such as Coluche and Simone Signoret. These pages sketch both the daily life of a passionate man and the upheavals of an era. A life at once grandiose and ordinary, imbued with sensitivity and lucidity, which will be recounted by Vincent Dedienne in Il ne m'est jamais rien arrivé, directed by Johanny Bert.

Juste la fin du monde: Jean-Luc Lagarce's play starring Vincent Dedienne
30 years after his death, the Théâtre de l'Atelier pays tribute to Jean-Luc Lagarce by performing two of his plays in alternating years from January 15, 2025, including Juste la fin du monde. The cast includes Vincent Dedienne, winner of the Molière for best actor in private theater 2024. [Read more]

Having been chosen to play one of the characters in Juste la fin du monde, Vincent Dedienne was inspired to create a one-man show based on Jean-Luc Lagarce 's diary . The actor teamed up with Johanny Bert to create Il ne m'est jamais rien arrivé, adapted from the famous Lagarce's diary.