"It's promised, this year we're going to make it short,
" sings Alexis Michalik who arrives on the stage of the Paris theater walking at a rapid pace, surrounded by a small troupe to the music of Thierry Boulanger, the director of Orchestra of
Producers
.
The master of ceremonies immediately set the playful tone of this 34th ceremony.
“Above all, it must last less than two hours, we will make it shorter than the Caesars.
In the theater, it's not like in the cinema, you can't start the take twice.
The author, actor and director warned the winners that music would interrupt their thanks after a few minutes.
Marie Gillain and Alex Vizorek awarded the Molière of revelations: Lison Pennec, cousin of Glenn Gould in
Glenn, birth of a prodigy
by Yvan Calbérac and Thomas Gendronneau who plays the title role.
The Molière for best actor in the private theater went to Thierry Lopez for his performance in
Forget me
by Matthew Saeger.
He greeted his partner Marie-Julie Baup.
On the public theater side, it was awarded to Christian Hecq for his role as Monsieur Jourdain in
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
by Molière at the Comédie-Française.
With his partner on stage and in the city Valérie Lesort, for the same play, he also received that of the staging of the public theater and finally that of the best show.
“You boss!”
, said Éric Ruf, the general administrator of the house of Molière.
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"No,
Blanche Gardin
was not available!"
, launched Marina Rollman, before awarding the Molière for humor to Laura Felpin.
The 30-year-old shared her prize with Florence Foresti.
Their eldest, Pierre Richard was applauded for a long time when he entered the set to award the Molière for the only one on stage to Sylvie Testud for
Everyone knew
, by Valérie Bacot.
“Valerie, this is for you!”
, said the blonde actress.
"I finished ?"
asked the Tall Blond in the black shoe.
"We're holding on, clap your hands!"
, recommended Alexis Michalik, eager not to exceed the two hours planned.
But the program was broadcast about forty minutes late.
Thus, the viewer did not see Michel Fau leave empty-handed, nor his rant against the two women trade unionists mobilized against the pension reform that Alexis Michalik invited to come on the set.
The actor was booed by the room.
Exchange with the CGT
Arrested, the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak came out of her silence.
Sitting near Jean-Marc Dumontet, president of the Molières, she grabbed a microphone which was curiously within reach and calmly replied that she had never defended culture so much, that the aid had been substantial during the pandemic.
She added that she had several times proposed appointments to trade union organizations.
“My door remains open,”
she finished.
The ceremony took its course.
A brilliant idea,
by and with Sébastien Castro, won the Molière for comedy.
Thomas Jolly, future artistic director of the 2024 Olympic Games, awarded the Molière for best private theater direction to Marie-Julie Baup and Thierry Lopez for Oublie-
moi.
Before receiving two in turn for
Starmania
(musical show and visual and sound creation).
His thanks went to Luc Plamondon present on stage, and to Michel Berger.
The Oublie-moi
show
triumphed, with a fourth prize for best private theater show (at the Saint-Martin theater until the end of June then at La Bruyère).
Irina Brook, the daughter of Peter Brook, paid tribute to the director who died in July 2022.
"He said that the theater was a story of being together."
Aïda Asgharzadeh thanked her parents after receiving the Molière for French-language play for
Les Poupees persanes
, a show that premiered at the last Avignon Off festival.
"We must support the current Iranian revolution,"
said Aïda Asgharzadeh alongside comedian Kyan Khojandi.
Then the duo awarded the Molière for the best actress in the private theater to Marie-Julie Baup (the third trophy of the evening).
“We did not say, no politics”
Sara Giraudeau was the winner of the best actress for the public theater with
Le Syndrome de l'oiseau
by Pierre Tré-Hardy, inspired by the Natacha Kampush affair.
Tears in her eyes, the actress greeted, without naming him, her father Bernard Giraudeau and her mother, Anny Duperey, moved.
Alexis Michalik practically won his bet, he embellished the evening with short humorous films, interventions by comedians (Florent Peyre, Nicole Ferroni, ...), song - Need for love interpreted
and
danced by the Drag troupe Race-, from an excerpt from the musical
Black Legends
.
“We did not say, no politics”,
he recalled after the inappropriate intervention of Jean-Marc Dumontet who chose to defend the government.
The important thing was elsewhere this evening: despite the various interruptions, the theater was a party.
