“If there is a theater where you don't know how you should play Molière, it's yours
.
“
The quote is signed Éric Ruf, but Guillaume Gallienne, 513th resident of the premises, shares the opinion of his general administrator:
“I would have been quite incapable of teaching my students how to play Molière in a generic way,
assures the actor
.
But I like the idea that we can be surprised, both by the text and by a staging or a different reading.
In the light of the pandemic, his recovery of the
Imaginary Invalid
,
Salle Richelieu, will indeed have an unprecedented flavor.
“This piece finds a dizzying echo in the news.
The scene which opposes Argan to Béralde on the subject of doctors who should or should not be trusted is what we have been witnessing for two years on television sets.
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