During a few days in the month of May, the Odeon will be giving young, emerging theater a chance to take the big stage. A sort of snapshot of theatrical creation today, a ticket to travel with some of the most interesting new theater companies around,
Impatience invites you to ten festive, generous days of theater. If you love discovering
the new, and are curious to see what the world and the stage of tomorrow look like, this is for you. Helping new talents become better known, starting today, making it easier for them to meet up with a larger audience, encouraging the explorations and curiosities of young theatrical companies, these are some of the objectives that
Impatience has set for itself. Some fifteen years ago, the work of Olivier Py (like that of Stéphane Braunschweig or Hubert Colas) received similar support at a festival in Strasbourg. The director of the Odeon theater therefore knows just how important it is to offer young talents the stage of one of the most prestigious theatrical institutions in the country.
You might remember that the Odeon recently organized a « festival for young actors » in its "second theater". Since the reopening of the big historic theater in the 6th arrondissement and acquisition of a second theater, the Ateliers Berthier in the 17th arrondissement, the ambitions of a project as grandiose as
Impatience, now has the means to move forward. But Olivier Py also wanted his new directorship to be the occasion to rethink the organization and the priorities of such an event. Still in collaboration with the young national theater, and perhaps also with support from other artistic or institutional partners, the Odeon Theater is going to propel the creators and artisans of our theater of the future. A selection of plays presented by emerging theatrical companies, who have attracted our attention throughout the season, will be offered on our various stages, including our historic theater and not only in the 17th arrondissement : pure moments of theatrical magic, just like more established companies, and equally demanding and accomplished. These will not be simple models, workshops, prototypes or fragments of works-in-progress or not previously performed, nor the presentation of end-of-the-year projects, but a
sui generis encounter, bringing together completed works, autonomous and very professional performances. This annual event's primary objective is to serve young theater companies, to offer them a wider audience, and to defend and support them in their desire to perform at the highest and most demanding levels of their art. A means of showing that there is solidarity in the world of theater, from one end of the spectrum to the other, and from one generation to the next.
Prices :
Théâtre de l'Odéon : from 5 to 15 €
Berthier Grande salle and Berthier Petite salle : 9 €
Laissez-passer (7 spectacles) : 25 € – Lecteurs de Télérama, abonnés de l'Odéon : laissez-passer (7 spectacles) : 20 €
Partenaires :
Production Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe
Avec le soutien des Fondations Edmond & Benjamin de Rothschild 
et du Jeune Théâtre National
en partenariat avec Télérama 
et France Inter 
