The Jury Experience in Paris: The Murderous AI

The Jury Experience is courtroom theatre that Fever produces itself, and in Paris it plays the Théâtre de l’Alliance Française at 101 Boulevard Raspail in the 6th arrondissement. You are shown to a seat in the category you paid for and the auditorium becomes the jury box. Fever’s own photos show a judge in a black robe at a bench between two lawyers, on a stage hung with red curtains. The show runs for about 60 minutes.

The case is The Murderous AI. A self-driving car has killed someone, and somebody has to answer for it in court: the programmer who wrote the code, the passenger who trusted the machine, or the artificial intelligence that made the decision. Fever says there is no precedent, no legal framework and no obvious answer, and that the case is inspired by real events. You hear the testimony and the cross-examinations and weigh the evidence.

The audience does the deciding. Fever says you vote at key moments as the trial goes on, that those votes steer the hearing, and that the jury has the last word: guilty or not guilty. The actors do not single anyone out; the listing says they hold the room without direct interaction, so nobody is called on to speak. Reviewers on the listing say the talk about the case carries on after the verdict.

The listing gives the language as French, and it mentions no surtitles or English performances, so this is one for visitors who follow spoken French at courtroom speed. Fever also gives a content note: the show deals with grief and with the physical injuries of a fatal road accident, and some scenes are emotionally heavy. Strobe lighting is possible. Ages are 12 and over, with under-16s accompanied by an adult. On 11 November 2026 it held 4.4 from 1,799 reviews on Fever, with sessions on sale to 26 February 2027, mostly on Friday evenings and on Saturday or Sunday at 17:00 and 19:00.

Fever runs three Jury Experience cases at the same theatre, and this is the one to book. On Fever on 11 November 2026 The Murderous AI held 4.43 from 1,799 reviews, against 4.26 from 1,330 for the 20 million dollar heist case and 4.24 from 926 for the fatal boat trip case, so it is the best-rated of the three and the most reviewed. Its question is also the freshest: there is no villain to spot, only a decision about who is responsible when a machine drives. It is a Fever Original, so Fever is the seller; the listing says tickets are sold in the Fever app and on Fever’s website, and at the door only up to an hour before, if any are left.

On price, the cheapest seats we found after 25 November 2026 were Category C on Friday 27 November, 24.78 euros with Fever’s fee, under an offer the listing shows as 20 percent off. From December Category C is 30.45 euros with the fee on most dates. Seats within a category go in order of arrival, so Category B, from 33.18 euros on 27 November and 40.42 on most later dates, is the sensible middle if you cannot be early. The theatre is a 7-minute walk from Mandarin Oriental Lutetia, Paris. If your French is not up to a trial, book something that needs no language instead: our page on Candlelight concerts in Paris is the obvious one.