Valère Novarina’s dramatic work presents an original intersection between theatre and performance, which can be envisioned from the point of view of the question of incarnation. The figure of the histrion – the agent of a failed incarnation, of a masterless mimesis – is at the heart of the question of the transition between a theatre of the text and a theatre of emancipated action. Valère Novarina’s negative path allows us to conceive of a stage that exists not after the death of God, but after the hollowing out and removal of his place.