In Marseille churches, Ariane Ascaride gives chair back to the Sermons of Pagnol

On this Wednesday afternoon, the faithful (theater) flock to a rather special mass in the nave of the Saint-Victor abbey, which overlooks the Old Port in Marseille.

This takes place as part of the shows outside the walls offered by the Théâtre du Gymnase.

No cassock or pulpit, but a simple pulpit and the majestic setting of the abbey choir are enough for Ariane Ascaride to put on the preacher's habit with amazing ease.

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"It's quite pleasing for me"

because

, confides the actress, at the end of the reading, stressing that, moreover,

.

However,

, she confesses:

.

Said power is very much due to the oratory displayed in these sermons, which Marcel Pagnol considered to be very close to the dramatic art even if, he underlined in an interview in 1965,

:

, he explained.

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In this case, the verve of Ariane Ascaride, who finds for the occasion his Marseille accent, without which it would be difficult to give the same scope to Pagnol's phrasing, has nothing to envy that of Fernand Sardou, who played the priest of Cucugnan in the eponymous film by Marcel Pagnol, adapted from

by Alphonse Daudet. Seeing her mimic the lapping of the bubbling cauldrons in which the damned of Cucugnan cook, a parish

, one would almost believe that one could see the flames of hell.

This is because it takes a sacred force of persuasion for the venerable priest to bring his lost flock back to the right path of confession.

Even if it means becoming a

, as in the sermon of the “Grand Fontainier”, this time taken from the film

.

, the writer having managed, according to the actress, to capture

.

He is

here and

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