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Theater: and "Godot" waited for Alain Francon

2022-06-19T15:59:09.925Z


CRITICISM – At the Nuits de Fourvière, the director presented a magical version of the famous play by Samuel Beckett.


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We've been waiting for Alain Françon's Godot for so long!

Well, there it is.

It was presented for the first time last Thursday under the stars during the Nuits de Fourvière, at the Odéon theater.

Alain Françon had already ridden Beckett.

Endgame

and

The Last Band

.

It was in the last century.

In Lyon therefore, in this Roman arena, in this bluish semi-circle, there is nothing or almost nothing.

On the right, a dead tree (perhaps) -

"a shrub"

?

as Vladimir wonders;

"a shrub"

?

thought Estragon - on the left a stone.

In the background, a grey, white abstract canvas representing a sort of finite infinity.

As always with Françon, the decor is set to highlight the words and the silhouette of the actors.

Arrives, limping, Estragon.

The wanderer looks like it came straight out of a Chaplin movie.

It is interpreted by André Marcon soon joined, fly open, by Gilles Privat in the tinsel of Vladimir.

He would rather go out...

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Source: lefigaro

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