They are said in purgatory. These authors played that we no longer play. Jean Anouilh, Henry de Montherlant, Marcel Achard, Jean Giraudoux, Félicien Marceau, André Roussin, Édouard Bourdet to name a few… All await their judgment in the shadows. Will they pass to posterity or will they end in hell? Jean-François Sampieri-Marceau, universal heir to the aforementioned Félicien, laments. The Egg , which entered the Comédie-Française repertoire over forty years ago, has never been picked up since. Nothing to report either on the side of private theaters. Flat calm, oscillometer at zero. An explanation is finally given to us, which one hardly dares to repeat: these authors would be classified on the right when the culture is on the left. “It is excruciatingly reductive and regrettable but it is like that, deplores the actor and director Michel Fau. May 68 passed by there. Anouilh and Montherlant are now considered to be horrible citizens installed when they are real sulfurous authors. And the Comedy
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