Narjess Djaafar - Mal élevée

Too much submission is dangerous to your health. This one-woman show might just make you forget everything you should never have learned.

What if being “badly brought up” were a form of freedom? Narjess turns it into a strength. With humor, warmth, and insolence, she questions social norms and explores what it means to be “untamable” in a society that expects us to fit in.

The daughter of immigrants, raised by her illiterate grandmother in a working-class housing estate, she grew up in a matriarchal household where children weren’t forced to kiss the guests.

Blending personal stories, reflections, and sharp observations about our society, she brings together political commitment and intimate experience, without holding back. She looks back on her journey, her story, and her love life, and also wonders about Jack, Rose, and the Titanic, Abbé Pierre, and the Dalai Lama—and whether having tea with Hitler could have changed history.