Adam de la Halle’s play, translated and directed by Jacques Rebotier and Jacques Darras for the Vieux Colombier theatre in 2003, was interpreted linguistically and in its contemporaneity – the play tells of Adam’s trying to leave Arras and its people, from bourgeois to fools – as a post-modern play, an interpretation sustained for us in the impossible quest for the origins of theatre the name retained for the show recalls : the Jeu d’Adam…