Yes, this staging of Molière's ultimate comedy will continue to be a landmark.
It is an anthology.
How not to laugh at Argan, this monstrously egocentric character and so wonderfully, so intelligently interpreted by Guillaume Gallienne who knows how to do great comedy, delicately pathetic?
And what about Christian Hecq, who in turn dons the dress of two doctors on the verge of madness: Diafoirus and Purgon.
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From the outset, when the off-white curtain reveals the stage to the sound of a few pinches of a harpsichord, we are immersed in this large decor of a somewhat dilapidated empty house.
Already hovers the fluffy shadow of death on borrowed time.
In the center of the room, Argan, seated on his commode in his nightgown and bonnet over his head, does his apothecary accounts.
He coughs, he groans, he spits into his handkerchief.
Anthology scenes
Guillaume Gallienne will take on the role of Argan, this unbearable whimsical hypochondriac…
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