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Our review of the play L'Orage: a dazzling Shakespearean roar

2023-01-19T13:11:00.178Z


CRITICISM – At the Bouffes du Nord, in Paris, Laurent Mauvignier has adapted Alexandre Ostrovski's play as a virtuoso. And Denis Podalydès offers a solid and inventive staging.


Cries echo across the Volga.

A huge photograph by Thibaut Cuisset unrolls the river in majesty.

A disheveled man yells at his nephew who flees in fear.

The inhabitants of the small town where everything is known and lends itself to gossip enjoy the scene.

A big storm is brewing.

Kouliguine (always prodigious and almost lunar Philippe Duclos), a philosopher inventor, made a lightning rod to deal with this eventuality.

But it's another storm he's going to witness.

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Katerina (Mélodie Richard) is married to Tikhone (Thibault Vinçon), a mild alcoholic who lives under the influence of his dictator mother (Nada Strancar, perfect dominatrix).

The young woman is agitated, she feels she could die.

She doesn't know exactly why, but her heart is beating too fast.

Dream about flying like a bird.

Was Chekhov inspired by it to write his

Seagull

?

Despite herself, Katerina loves Boris (Julien Campani) who loves her in return.

What an abomination...

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Source: lefigaro

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