Theater alumni: Eloïse Guérineau stars in the play “Rien plus qu'un peu de moelle”

Rien qu'un peu de moelle

Malte Schwind and Émilie Hériteau's adaptation draws on Rabelais' four books, but mainly on Pantagruel and the Quart-Livre. It follows the giant Pantagruel from his birth to his journey with Panurge to the oracle of the Dive Bouteille, retracing a sort of initiatory journey into life.

Through this epic parody, Rabelais examines the deplorable state of his time and relies on friendship, pleasure, and laughter to maintain faith in his contemporaries and in humanity. Rabelais is convinced that any project of emancipation can only arise through joy and the body, and that linguistic invention is its indispensable catalyst.

Rien qu'un peu de moelle is written in Middle French, in a language so earthy and unheard of even in Rabelais's time that Paul Valéry described it as “a foreign language that one would discover one knew in advance.”.

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January 14 to 24, 2026

Wednesday to Friday - 7:30 p.m

Saturday - 6 p.m

Théâtre L'Echangeur - 59 avenue du Général de Gaulle 93170 Bagnolet

Prices: starting at €14 - reservations required

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3 hours 30 minutes with intermission - ages 14 and up

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Based on: the work of François Rabelais

Directed by: Malte Schwind

Adapted by: Malte Schwind and Émilie Hériteau

Assistant and dramaturgy: Émilie Hériteau

Cast: Julie Cardile, Sarah Cosset, Julien Geffroy, Éloïse Guérineau, and Mayeul Victor-Pujebet

Set design: Margaux Nessi

Costumes: Axelle Terrier

Lighting: Anne-Sophie Mage

Sound: Josef Amerveil

Stage manager: Victoire Sébrier

Interns: Louise Bonnemaille, Juliette Galan-Nguyen, Myriam Del Puerto

Production: En Devenir 2

Co-direction and creative residency: Théâtre L’Échangeur - Compagnie Public Chéri

Co-production, residencies, support and distribution: Les Salins - scène nationale de Martigues, Pôle Arts de la Scène de la Friche de la Belle de Mai (Marseille), La Criée, Théâtre National de Marseille, Théâtre Durance - scène nationale (Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban), Théâtre Bois de l’Aune (Aix-en-Provence), La Commune - CDN d’Aubervilliers, La Fonderie (Le Mans), Le CUBE - Studio Théâtre de Hérisson, Théâtre L’Échangeur (Bagnolet), Théâtre Antoine Vitez (Aix-en-Provence)

With the support of: the City of Marseille, the Bouches-du-Rhône Departmental Council, the SUD Region, the DRAC-PACA and the DGCA Co-production Fund