Patrick Masset founded the Théâtre d'Un Jour in 1994. A director with a degree in philosophy, Patrick Masset comes from a background in theatre and is passionate about hand-to-hand work; he advocates physical, transdisciplinary theatre rooted in reality.


In 2008, he created L'Enfant qui ..., a show based on the work of sculptor Jephan de Villiers.


With Strach - a fear song, he is guided by two desires: to bring together circus and opera, via the original concept of ‘portés de voix’, and to rediscover a circus of the origins, wild and strange.


In his latest project, Reclaim, a lyric singer, five circus performers and two cellists invite us to experience an imaginary ritual in which the writing and the dramaturgy lead the work of the body and the voice towards a fundamentally artistic proposition. Reclaim is a collective experience, an act of resistance that means reclaiming what you have been separated from.