Outgoing

This event is in the past.It took place on December 14, 2025 at Théâtre Gérard Philipe, centre dramatique national.

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Welfare 2
Welfare 3
Welfare 4
Welfare 5

Julie Deliquet transforms Frederick Wiseman's 1975 documentary into a tragicomic ensemble piece set in a New York welfare center. Fifteen actors bring social workers, homeless families, and the elderly to life in a 1970s gymnasium-turned-shelter, revealing both the absurdity and heartbreak of bureaucracy meeting human need.

Ensemble drama
Social realism
Documentary adaptation
Tragicomic

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🎭"remarkable, touching, and incredibly comical" (Le Figaro)
👏"moving, despairing, remarkably interpreted" (Claire Chazal, Le Parisien)
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Théâtre Gérard Philipe, centre dramatique national

59 Bd Jules Guesde, 93200 Saint-Denis, France

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