The venture of these Three Musketeers was launched in 2012 by this band of young actors and directors, trained at the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique in Paris and working at the Studio-Théâtre d’Asnières-sur-Seine. Ten years later, with six seasons available, meaning six shows lasting between one and a half hours and two hours and forty minutes, this fascinating outdoor and off-stage work has come full circle. It proves that you can produce a soap opera on a theatre stage and perform a literary blockbuster in episodes by combining the conventions of television series, pop culture and live performance and unabashedly mixing aesthetics, forms and periods to convey the full intensity of Alexandre Dumas’ fictional symphony of work.

By plunging Athos, Portos, Aramis and d’Artagnan into this impetuous staging, full of energy, unbridled inventions and cheeky humour, Collectif 49 701 practises the subtle art of the makeover and putting things into modern political perspective. These odd heroes, often acting on the borderline of legality, sketch out a series of acts of rebellion that tell the story of our times. This long story places the spectator at the heart of an immersive setting outside the theatre. The talent, joy and communicative energy of this merry bunch revive one of the first pleasures of live performance, which is to immerse yourself in the emotions, twists and turns of a story, for an explosive theatre marathon.