Joining Forces

Faire Commune
by Garence Guierre and Leonor Stirman

Co-produced by the Bourse du Travail de Malakoff, with support from the City of Malakoff, Vallée Sud Grand Paris, Art Tutti, Fnac, Adami, and Avignon Festival et Compagnies.
This production receives support from Occitanie en Scène for Avignon OFF 2024 and from Diagoris for Avignon OFF 2025.

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It is well known that it is by understanding the past that we can better understand the present. This beautiful and invigorating show takes us on a journey through the history of the labor movement and social struggles in the town of Malakoff, in the Paris suburbs—originally part of the Vanves district, which became its own municipality at the end of the 19th century.

Step into the grand cabaret of History and let yourself be swept away by 150 years of the labor movement and social progress in France, told with humor and music!

By honoring real-life unsung heroes, *Faire Commune?* tells the story of the Paris Commune, the Popular Front, the National Council of the Resistance, and the 1963 miners’ strike—but also, and above all, of civic engagement and solidarity.

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Text and Direction: Garance Guierre
Text and Music: Leonor Stirman
Cast: Kim Aubert, Denis Ardant, Benjamin Candotti-Besson, Garance Guierre, and Leonor Stirman
Technical Director: Jonathan Hache
Historian: Catherine Bruant
Social History Consultant: Gérard Billon
Sociologist: Luc Badier