Abstract: This article illuminates the principles at the root of Georges Lavaudant’s work. Without reducing a “poetic” practice to a dry technique, it seeks to identify the constants which recur from one production to another, from Lorenzaccio (Grenoble, 1973) to La Tempête (Bobigny, 2010). It privileges direct testimony, focusing on Lauvandant’s staging of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.