Tag: Theater
Special program 400 years of Molière! What role internationally?
This year, Molière is 400 years old! An opportunity to celebrate with great fanfare one of the best-known and most performed playwrights. Of Tartuffe to Imaginary illness, what remains of…
Eric Bouvron and Lawrence of Arabia, the valiant choir theater
On the stage of the Théâtre le 13ème Art, Eric Bouvron portrays with poetry and ingenuity the life of Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as “Lawrence of Arabia”. A theatrical…
Is Molière still current? – Debate of the day
It’s the Molière year! Jean-Baptiste Poquelin –his real name- was born 400 years ago, and on this occasion, many events are planned to celebrate the most famous of French playwrights.…
Magali Tosato and Moanda Daddy Kamono, face his “profile”
The playwright and actor Moanda Daddy Kamono performs his introspective text “Profile” on stage at the MC93, directed by Magali Tosato. He looks back on discrimination in the world of…
Jean-Christophe Folly served on a platter
A portrait is not a kindness but an opinion, said a famous photographer. A quote that fits our guest like a white glove, first worn elegantly, then thrown in the…
400 years Molière [2/2], both “African” and star in the digital age
Even 400 years after his birth, Molière seems to resist everything. Long spearhead of French cultural colonialism, he then became the voice of the revolutionaries. An emblem of classical theatre,…
400 years Molière [1/2], “never where expected”
It is “a living world heritage” and also “African”. In 2022, the year of Molière’s 400th birthday, the latter will have his first translation into Wolof, accompanied by a major…
Show: Michel Fau seizes Molière and his comedy-ballet “George Dandin”
Molière was not only an author, director and actor, he was also the inventor of a new genre: the comedy-ballet. In complicity with the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully was born, in…
Theatre: “Gulliver’s Travels” adapted by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Gulliver’s Travels, written at the beginning of the 18th century by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, has come down to us as a children’s tale. The largely amputated original text…
Theater: “Le Chœur” by Fanny de Chaillé, a body of ten voices
They are 10 on stage to form a single entity, with 10 voices. Ten young actors and actresses, who speak, whisper, are indignant, confide, challenge each other, tell each other…