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Our review of the play Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine, Armande and the others: Molière at the wedding

2022-06-27T14:50:03.444Z


CRITICISM – At the Comédie-Française, Julie Deliquet stages the effervescent intimacy of the family of the actor and playwright.


How not to be seduced by the decor?

Visual happiness.

Here is the interior of a house, that of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, and we would gladly stay there.

Barely seated - the play begins in a few minutes - the attentive spectator can see, seated upstairs, an elegant woman.

A casual bare foot resting on the railing, she plays the fan.

Wouldn't that be Mademoiselle Du Parc?

We hear, in the distance, cries of joy.

This is Molière's troupe.

She just played

L'Ecole des femmes

and it was a great success.

We find a bunch of merry men: Madeleine Béjart and her daughter Armande (Florence Viala and Adeline d'Hermy), Du Croisy (Serge Bagdassarian), Brécourt (Hervé Pierre), La Grange (Sébastien Pouderoux), Mlle de Brie (Pauline Clément ) and therefore Miss Du Parc (Elsa Lepoivre) came down to celebrate.

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Molière (Clément Bresson) arrives a little later: he has done the accounts.

The play, carefully staged by Julie Deliquet, has no other claim...

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Source: lefigaro

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