Le 20 novembre

In the aftermath of a school shooting in Germany, Lars Norén wrote a striking monologue inspired by the diary left behind by an 18-year-old young man who took his own life after opening fire on the teachers and students of his former school. One hour and twelve minutes before the massacre, the boy’s voice is heard. Through a mixture of hatred, fragility, lucidity, and despair, he expresses the unbearable suffering that consumes him, exposing through his fractures a far deeper social unease. The text reveals the collective complicity of a cold and merciless system toward those who do not fit in, treated as outcasts, failures, and rejects, to the point of driving some over the edge, like Sebastian Bosse. No one is innocent in this theatre of judgment. The verdict is devastating, yet it gives rise to an immediate and necessary awakening.