Non à l’argent !
Artistic performance
12 December 2025
Richard is one of those lucky people: he wins €162 million in the lottery. And he refuses it. He gathers his wife, his mother and his best friend, but... How can he break the news to them? A comedy not to be missed on Friday 12 December 2025!
Compagnie Jeu d’Artifices
Author: Flavia Coste
Directed by Virginia Ricordeau
With Bénédicte Leturcq, Sylvain Berardi, Lionel Bouttau, Elodie Berardi
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes • Refreshments available (run by the Festival Committee)
1st prize in the 2023 Audience Award at the Saint Laurent du Var Theatre Festival
2nd prize in the 2025 ‘Grand Prix FNCTA Sud Est’
THE STORY:
Winning the lottery jackpot: a dream for many... and the beginning of a nightmare for others! Does money bring happiness? You decide! Richard is one of the lucky ones: he wins €162 million. And he refuses it. He gathers his wife, his mother and his best friend, but how can he break the news to them? It's going to be a turbulent evening! This is the starting point for this eccentric and edifying comedy.
‘Ah! ...money, that corrupting, poisoning money, which dried up souls, drove out kindness, tenderness and love for others! It alone was the great culprit, the instigator of all cruelty and all human filth.’ (E. Zola)
Money! What a vast subject! Balzac, Rousseau, Dumas, Tolstoy, Alain, Marx... many have written about money. Money does not bring happiness. Yes, but... it contributes to it. And so the debate begins!
Non à l'argent by Flavia Coste is above all a comedy that makes you laugh.
But it also makes you think. Do we need it? Yes, of course, but not too much! Both sides have valid arguments.