a show in his image!
MOLIERE is a joyful and inventive piece that crosses the life and work of Molière with a touch of radiant madness.
MOLIERE is the acronym of Méli Mélo Oratoire Freely Inspired by Wanderings in the Directory of the Eponym ! But that would have made a title a bit long and less easy to remember… although rather very representative what this show is about!
This is what we call “finishing in style”! Because yes, it always ends up happening… Our Avignon OFF Festival is coming to an endthe last shows are looming, we start to refuse the leaflets because “we are leaving soon”and nostalgia is already drawing its contours… But when our last applause resounds on an intense feeling of joythis ending takes on another flavor…
Molière… by himself!
You have probably never seen Molière from such an angle! Because the works on the famous actor and playwright abundant. And some allow us moments of beautiful and great theaterat the creation stage of Pierre-Olivier Scotto & Jean-Philippe Daguerre, Moliere’s journey. But it is rarer to see it in such a quirky and original way.
It is therefore the life of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin that these three actors go through while a musician accompanies them on the keyboard, in a minimalist and suppressed staging. Crossing is really the word, because they don’t just tell it, they appropriate it by tinting it with remarks, digressions, contemporary references, and turning all they can to derision !
” You have to believe us, we’ve read all the biographies! » they reassure us all the same! And we do not doubt it. Car, if the shape gives pride of place to humor full of lightness and fantasyshe is no less very hardworking, intelligent and skilful. In effect, their lines are taken from the works of Molière – which they cite so that we can identify ourselves – and assembled in such a way as to render the propose coherent and structured.
funny and smart
So that thewe laugh with this MOLIERE., yes. Corn about also learning things on the life and work of the artist. To rediscover The precious ridiculous who “put all the nobles in PLS” ! ; The Tartuffe and the scandals generated by this criticism of “the hypocrisy of false devotion” ; or the miser, The doctor despite Himself, Dom Juan, The bourgeois gentleman, Imaginary sick…
Clément Beauvoir, Lucas Hénaff, Etienne Luneau and Joseph Robinne have imagination and crazy energy ! The comic effects follow one another and don’t leave us time to get bored. Thus, we discover a hilarious Arnaud de Bourbon on his horse ; a team of journalists who publish and transcribe Molière’s tour like sports commentators; or even a Louis XIV making entre-chats!
It’s really pleasant to feel actors giving it their all. Their passion, their enthusiasm and their generosity are exhilarating. And we would gladly rediscover all the great figures of the theater in this way!
That’s good, because it seems that a CHEKHOV would be in preparation…!
MOLIERE, after Molière, with Clément Beauvoir, Lucas Hénaff, Etienne Luneau, Joseph Robinne, directed by Elsa Robinne, is played at Barrel Theaterfrom July 7 to 30, at 2:25 p.m. (no class on Tuesday).
Then from 08 to 25 September 2022 at Wooden Sword Theaterin Paris.
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8.5
What madness !
Completely crazy, wacky, sometimes burlesque, this show offers an original, clever and really well thought out approach to the life and work of Molière. The impertinence of the actors is prosperous, and their mastery of the texts never fails.