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Theater: Danièle Lebrun lifts the veil on Molière's daughter

2022-02-21T17:21:56.602Z


CRITICISM – At the Studio-théâtre de la Comédie-Française, the actress, alone on stage, embodies the unknown daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. And revives the father.


Esprit-Madeleine was baptized in Paris in 1665. She was the second child of Armande Béjart and Jean-Baptiste Poquelin.

Esprit-Madeleine


- what a first name!

-, who died in 1723, was the only one of Armande and Molière's four children to have survived them, but she never said or wrote a word about her illustrious father.

Withdrawn from adolescence in a convent, this "little Alceste" had chosen silence.

It is in this austere place that the Italian writer Giovanni Macchia imagined a meeting between a young aspiring actor and Mademoiselle Poquelin.

His play is titled

Le Silence de Molière

.

And, on the stage of the Studio-Théâtre of the Comédie-Française, a scene that could not be more sober but of a beautiful elegance, Esprit-Madeleine is seated on a small bench;

a large mirror reflects her back.

Character Gallery

It's the other side of the coin.

This is a beautiful painting.

Molière's daughter is played by Danièle Lebrun.

Director Anne Kessler could not have made a better choice.

The actress is beyond...

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Source: lefigaro

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