Country Bonheur
In the framework of the "Les Compagnies sur le Pont" proposed by the City of Nice to the professional niçoise troops on the poster of the Festival Off d'Avignon 2026.
He fled his country. His terrible journey, he tells us. He came to the end. But here, the promised land so coveted, the happiness country as they say, reveals itself under its true day, that of moral and material misery. We have to work. You have to send money to the country, it costs, even if the family forgets you little by little. He was from there, he came here, and this here he can never leave him again. With Pays Bonheur, Thierry de Pina signs his third adaptation of Emmanuel Darley’s text and embodies “a word of exile and light, a journey to humans, where borders fade and where dreams continue to speak. »
Creation Award – Festival Scènes d’Automne 2025
Photo credit: Compagnie Ah le Zèbre!
Author: According to Emmanuel Darley
Adaptation, staging and interpretation: Thierry de Pina. Music: Hicham Chahidi. Light: Nicolas Thibaut. Director of actor: Emmanuelle Lorre. Outdoor views : Sylvie Dutheil, Carole Scotto-Di-Fasano.
Production: Ah the Zebra! Support: City of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes Department, DRAC PACA. MECS Saint-Louis, MECS Notre Dame. Residences : Théâtre National de Nice – CDN Nice Côte d’Azur, Les Arts d’Azur (Le Broc – 06), Théâtre de la Libé.
Duration: 1h
Price: From 16€
He fled his country. His terrible journey, he tells us. He came to the end. But here, the promised land so coveted, the happiness country as they say, reveals itself under its true day, that of moral and material misery. We have to work. You have to send money to the country, it costs, even if the family forgets you little by little. He was from there, he came here, and this here he can never leave him again. With Pays Bonheur, Thierry de Pina signs his third adaptation of Emmanuel Darley’s text and embodies “a word of exile and light, a journey to humans, where borders fade and where dreams continue to speak. »
Creation Award – Festival Scènes d’Automne 2025
Photo credit: Compagnie Ah le Zèbre!
Author: According to Emmanuel Darley
Adaptation, staging and interpretation: Thierry de Pina. Music: Hicham Chahidi. Light: Nicolas Thibaut. Director of actor: Emmanuelle Lorre. Outdoor views : Sylvie Dutheil, Carole Scotto-Di-Fasano.
Production: Ah the Zebra! Support: City of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes Department, DRAC PACA. MECS Saint-Louis, MECS Notre Dame. Residences : Théâtre National de Nice – CDN Nice Côte d’Azur, Les Arts d’Azur (Le Broc – 06), Théâtre de la Libé.
Duration: 1h
Price: From 16€