Building at the Scène Parisienne: a satirical plunge into the corporate world

Léonore Confino's play Building runs at Scène Parisienne from May 21 to June 15, 2025. A gritty comedy about the corporate world and its absurdities.

From May 21 to June 15, 2025, Scène Parisienne hosts Building, an acid comedy written by Léonore Confino, an author renowned for her incisive texts on social and professional mechanisms. Directed by Guillaume de Mey and Giorgio Lofaro, this collective play explores with humor the ups and downs of the contemporary working world.

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The action takes place in a fictitious company, Consulting Conseil, housed in a thirteen-storey tower, where harried executives, bewildered HR managers, receptionists, cleaners and disconnected managers all pass by. All are frantically engaged in a logic of profitability and absurd communication, while an unusual event - birds crashing against the windows - disrupts their meticulous daily routine.

Building offers a succession of rhythmic, comical scenes revealing a world in permanent tension, between managerial vacuum, over-the-top coaching and silent burn-out. Using familiar situations - absurd meetings, empty brainstorming sessions, performance logics - the play paints a collective portrait that is as funny as it is chilling, in direct contact with the codes of modern business.

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The show would feature nine actors, including Marie Allemand, Muriella Blue and Jean Norhant, accompanied by Louis Auclair's voice-over, to bring this choral comedy to life, with humor described as "volatile". The scenography evokes an ascent towards a programmed fall, both metaphorical and very concrete.

This show is aimed at audiences familiar with contemporary comedies, fond of social satire and biting collective portraits. It could particularly appeal to those who know or recognize corporate codes, while appreciating their hijacking by theater.

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On the other hand, audiences looking for intimate narratives or plays with linear plots may be put off by the fragmented rhythm and choral writing. The emphasis here would be on ensemble energy and system criticism, rather than individual emotion.

This article is based on information available before the show. It is not based on a direct vision of the show.

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