C'est lundi au Vieux-Co : Portrait of a rural youth

“It has always been obvious to me that our missions as a cultural institution and the general missions fulfilled by agriculture were connected. They are about planting, raising, letting grow, watching, respecting how long growth can take, leaving land uncultivated in the basic yet fundamental goal of feeding oneself and the community”, said Éric Ruf last season, when the Comédie-Française signed the first ever convention between a National Theatre and the Ministry of Agriculture. This decision started off an in-depth program aimed at students from agricultural schools. And as a lucky coincidence, 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of social and cultural education, implemented in 1966 by statesman Edgard Pisani, making the arts and culture central to education. This Lundi au Vieux-Co gathers sociologist and farming world specialist Bertrand Hervieu, Morgane Nairaud, an actor from the Nouveau Théâtre Populaire, a company based in Maine-et-Loire village Fontaine-Guérin, and pensionnaire Adrien Simion, whose path took him from horse stables to theatre stages. Together, they will try and paint the portrait of a rural youth.

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