Marie Gicquel 12:03 p.m., March 17, 2024
A perpetual grayness, daily micro-aggressions and a group of friends worn out by life: this is what Rudy Milstein wanted to portray, who describes the story of five Parisians in search of happiness.
A long road awaits them in the capital.
A group of friends, sometimes a little depressed and already tired of life at 40.
If the story seems like a remake of
Friends
, it's not the case with this new play entitled "It's not easy to be happy when you're doing badly".
The play is performed in Paris at the Lepic theater but is going on tour next year.
At the heart of the story: a couple on the verge of breaking up, a psychologist more depressed than his patients and a single man who has one series of romantic disappointments.
Clearly, fate is besetting this group of friends, who could be that of everyone.
Rudy Milstein imagined this squeaky and dynamic piece, despite the characters' sluggishness: "It's really five problems of people aged 30 or 40 that I see around me", he confides at the microphone of Europe 1.
Questions about the daily life of an urbanite
A piece, postcard of an era… that of ultra-modern solitude established in an overwhelming city.
"It's a bit of all that that inspired me, that is to say all the Parisian behavior. However, in Paris, we are constantly attacked. So I wanted to question all that , on all these somewhat toxic behaviors that we have in Paris,” he continues.
This comedy frankly highlights the neuroses of city dwellers... and appears to be a very effective spleen hunt.