Culture, an essential asset on France Télévisions.
And not only on Culturebox, the recent ephemeral channel dedicated to the artistic world.
According to our information, a play will be put on in the coming weeks for a prime time broadcast on France 2. It is the actor Guillaume de Tonquédec, well known to the viewers of La Deux for his role in the hit series " Do not do this, do not do that ”, which will play the main role of“ Time Square ”, written by the playwright Clément Koch, to whom we owe“ Sunderland ”, in particular.
Also on the bill: Marc Fayet (Molière in the comedy for “Intelligent people”) and two young talents, Camille Aguilar (“Meurtres à Toulouse”, “Mongeville”, “Falco”) and Axel Auriant (Luka in “Skam ").
In this show, a comedian dented by his penchant for whiskey and his damn character will be asked to coach a young debutante in order to prepare an audition for "Romeo and Juliet".
Audition which will prove to be fictitious, the meeting being engineered by his older brother who wishes to make the main character regain a taste for the profession, who will eventually find Broadway.
Grandpa is really resisting
In the staging, José Paul, already at the helm of "la Garçonnière" with the same Guillaume de Tonquédec.
Broadcast live on France 2 in May 2018, just before the Molière ceremony, this piece captivated 2.9 million viewers, or 12.3% of the public.
Co-produced by Jaraprod (“la Quotidienne” on France 5) and the company Les Grands Théâtres, this play will be recorded at the end of April for later programming.
With, perhaps, a second life on the stage, once the theaters reopened.
In the spring, another piece will also be showing in France 2: “Papy fait de la resistance”, played by Catherine Jacob and Martin Lamotte, one of the two authors with Christian Clavier.
Before being a success in the cinema, this project was born at the Splendid forty years ago.
This new version, halfway between the original play, which took place in the cellar, and the film will bring together around fifteen actors on the set.
The recording is planned at the Paris theater.
