Isabelle Huppert's royal monologue
You must have seen once in your life Isabelle Huppert directed by Robert Wilson.
There was the mythical
Orlando
, inspired by Virginia Woolf, then
Quartett
, by Heiner Müller.
Their third collaboration,
Mary Said What She Said
by Darryl Pinckney (2019), at Espace Cardin, is revived.
The actress interprets, hieratic in her period dress, the last hours of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, remembering the great moments of her life.
An inventive monologue in a refined staging.
Royal, of course!
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“
Mary Said What She Said
”
, from April 13
to May 14
,
at Espace Cardin in Paris
.
A psychiatric hospital on stage
Actress Alexandra Gentil in the play
Kliniken
.
Simon Gosselin
After a
Pelléas
et
Mélisande
, by Maeterlinck, much noticed at the Ateliers Berthier, Julie Duclos paid tribute to Lars Norén, who died in 2021, with
Kliniken
, premiered at the Odéon the following year.
The theater Les Gémeaux resume the play which tells the daily life of a psychiatric hospital.
Everything is amazingly accurate, the common room with its TV, its sofa, its hinged doors, the unfathomable boredom that reigns there, the absolutely remarkable acting of the actors, even the humor of certain situations.
This prison world, and yet so close to ours, reflects a mirror of our society.
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“
Kliniken
” , from
April
12 to 15
at the Théâtre Les Gémeaux, in Seaux
The embodied memories of Jacques de Bascher
Gabriel Marc in the play
Jacques de Bascher
.
Fabienne Rappeneau
Jacques de Bascher, prince of Parisian nights during the Palace years, (platonic) lover of Karl Lagerfeld, (sulphurous) lover of Yves Saint Laurent, is alone at home: the lights have gone out, he is alone and sick in his apartment completely vintage.
On tapes, he records his last long message to Karl.
Flashback to years past.
Gabriel Marc (actor and author) is a sensitive, incisive, funny and caustic Jacques de Bascher.
He revives this elegant dandy with grace and the strength of an eternal return.
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“
Jacques de Bascher
” , until
June
30
at the Théâtre de la Contrescarpe in Paris
.
The confessions of Frédéric Beigbeder
Confessions of a slightly overwhelmed heterosexual
by Frédéric Beigbeder, Éditions Albin Michel.
166p.
€19.90.
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Too many men shave the walls since MeToo for male confessions on the issue to be welcome.
Beigbeder is loose in the great widths, and we are grateful to him.
He attacks the sectarian delusions that have earned his house, in the Basque Country, to be tagged with insults to make him pay for some of his positions, on prostitution, pornography... With two young children under his roof , these attacks have deeply destabilized him and we understand that.
He feels the need to explain himself, with his usual sense of the formula, his self-mockery which is an inverted narcissism, but always of a disturbing sincerity, and by assuming his contradictions which constitute him.
Yes, men are beasts, and moreover they suffer from it as much as women.
Yes, love is terribly dangerous,
and passion without control does not exist.
If a new puritanism attacks desire and freedom of expression, we will be bored...
Beigbeder would like feminists not to confuse everything, and he would like to convince them that he is not their enemy, he, the pointed alpha male.
It's the price of success, he knows it well, but still!
Moreover, he talks with emotion and humor about his (past) addiction to coke, a stay in a monastery and an internship in the 21st Marine Infantry Regiment, phalansteries without women and very structured, to find his calme !
Beigbeder reviews himself and does not spare himself.
There is an irresistible energy and desire to share in his prose.
He fights political correctness and dogmatism, because that's where he feels useful.
Thanks to him for reminding us that men and women of good will are on the same side.
IPs
“
Confessions of a slightly overwhelmed heterosexual
”
by Frédéric Beigbeder, Éditions Albin Michel.
166p.
19,90€
A poignant dive into a tragic news item
Find Fiona
by Dalie Farah, Grasset Editions.
288p.
€20.90.
MS
The new book by the author of
Impasse Verlaine
and Le
Doigt
(Grand Prix de l'Héroïne-Madame Figaro 2021) is devoted to a terrible news item: after reporting the disappearance of Fiona, 5, on May 12, 2013, her mother, Cécile, eventually confessed that the girl had been beaten to death and that she and her companion had then buried the remains somewhere near a lake in the region.
It will be the beginning of a legal soap opera which ends after nine years in the condemnation of the duo, without the body of the child having ever been found...
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While following the tradition of writers who, such as Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Carrère, Truman Capote... have seized on bloody cases to try to identify the darkest areas of the human soul, Dalie Farah has a way very personal to report on the judicial process, the attitudes of judges, lawyers and journalists, as well as to unfold the lives of the accused, drug addicts and former battered children themselves.
With a pen that is both incisive and sensitive, by turns ironic and delicate, she describes the spiral of violence and misery in which so many families sink, one generation after another.
Clermontoise like Fiona and her family, she also holds up a mirror to her own childhood as a mistreated and repeatedly placed girl.
With this difference that she succeeded, she,
to survive and break the cycle, saved by words and the love of literature, saved by love in general, also, for his sister in particular, when other children who have become adults come to confuse him with the blows .
The police investigation is transformed here into intimate introspection, and it is one of the great successes of this text so heartbreaking, and yet so full of vitality, to make existences resonate in this way while offering, finally, a tomb to Fiona.
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than to make existences resonate while offering, finally, a tomb to Fiona.
MTH
than to make existences resonate while offering, finally, a tomb to Fiona.
MTH
“
Rediscover Fiona
”
by Dalie Farah, Editions Grasset.
288p.
20,90€
