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A virtuoso one-man show, a gallery of delightful and unforgettable characters. Rare, funny, and essential!<div> A happy childhood, a tale for adults.</div><div><br></div><div> "A slap never killed anyone", "It's for your own good", "What a spoiled child!" These phrases, which transcend generations, are at the heart of Happy Childhood, Antonella Questa's new show at the Avignon Off Festival.</div><div><br></div><div> Italian actress and writer Antonella Questa, who divides her time between Paris and Italy, has spent the last twenty years creating theatre at the intersection of comedy and politics. In this one-woman show, she embodies a gallery of delightful characters: a schoolteacher at her wit's end, children</div><div> capricious, a school principal clinging to her bottle, parents overwhelmed by their own contradictions and a talking cat that may hold the key to everything.</div><div><br></div><div> The show draws inspiration from Black Pedagogy, a concept coined by the German sociologist Katharina Rutschky to describe this ordinary educational violence – repression of emotions, guilt-tripping, authoritarianism – that spans centuries and continues to shape, often without their knowledge,</div><div> the adults that we are.</div><div><br></div><div> Neither a pamphlet nor a moral lesson, Happy Childhood is above all a theatrical delight; you laugh a lot, you recognize yourself in the characters, you are sometimes deeply moved. And you leave feeling lighter—and perhaps a little more insightful.</div>