One evening after returning from a mission, Alfredo Traps, a fifty-year-old sales manager, breaks down in the open countryside and finds refuge with an old man.
Behind the confusing welcome and hospitality reserved for him, the zealous visitor has had bad luck and landed in a living room where three old men indulge in their favorite game: setting up mock trials, all washed down with great wines.
These three former magistrates see it as an ultimate opportunity to replay their best years of practice.
Traps joins them on condition that he assumes the character of the accused.
Once the roles have been distributed, all that remains is to find out why the defendant could be incriminated.
To discover
Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection
SERVICE: Book your theater tickets on Le Figaro Billetterie
Traps facing his judge.
Benoist BRIONE
The three gunslinging grandpas conduct a contest of eloquence which gradually takes the form of a final judgment.
agathe moreaux
And when Saint-Julien, Château Latour or even Haut Médoc begin to replace what remains of blood, trouble begins and the charge is not long in coming.
Thus the three men gradually discover the troubled past of their guest.
A dark story of deception, death by heart attack of his hierarchical superior Brechtbühl and the promotion he obtained in this same place which followed.
The three get bogged down in a trial that will reveal much more than they expected.
The three gunslinging grandpas conduct a contest of eloquence which gradually takes the form of a final judgment.
What sentence will Traps get?
Dürrenmatt's play written in 1956 and which will be the subject of several adaptations finds in this version a new way of exploring a furiously timeless text.
In the casting: Philippe Catoire as master of the place and judge, Dominique Ratonnat in defense and Vincent Violette the most philosophical of the three, in the prosecution, facing Jean Jacques Nervest who embodies an often amazed Traps.
The three return to the representation of old age and its dazzling its letters of nobility.
All in intelligence and subtlety.
BOOK YOUR PLACE WITH LE FIGARO
"La Panne" until May 28, at the Théâtre de l'Essaïon (4th).
