Reading

La Mort du Môme

Restitution of Sébastien Kheroufi's residency

29.01.2026

Artist
Sébastien Kheroufi

Villa Medici hosts an exceptional public reading of the tragedy La Mort du Môme, a new work in progress by Sébastien Kheroufi, author and director in residence at Villa Medici in 2024 and 2026.

This play will be presented at the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris as part of the Festival d’Automne 2026, in partnership with the Centre Pompidou and the Panthéon, where the prologue will be performed.

The preview reading in the Grand Salon of Villa Médicis will plunge you into the intimate and moving work of Sébastien Kheroufi, named the Jean-Jacques-Lerrant award for theatrical revelation of the year 2024.

“Bury me where I have lived”
These words, a father’s last wishes, find their place in a strange will. L’Enfant discovers them at the same time as the father’s body, in an Emmaus home, in the middle of the night. One night to solve the enigma left by this unknown man. No house, no material inheritance, but the sole responsibility of a final resting place. A night to question the traces left by the landscape, to weigh up the dilemma of the land: the homeland versus the host country. A night of inheritance that will tear apart family, society and the child’s body.

Sébastien Kheroufi

Sébastien Kheroufi grew up between the Hauts-de-Seine and Emmaüs homes in Paris. After graduating with a BEP in mechanics and a variety of jobs, he joined the École Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de Paris (ESAD) and worked with several artists and companies. On stage, he played roles in Peer Gynt by Ibsen, Transfuges by Alexandra Badea and Mais cette nuit, vivre! by Chekhov, while also working in film with various directors.

Winner of the Ateliers Médicis in 2022, he took part in several new productions, assisted Anne-Laure Liégeois at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and led a project with UPE2A secondary school students on the subject of exile. In 2023, he directed his first play, Antigone, at the Théâtre du Soleil, and became an associate artist at the CDN-Théâtre des...