Silvia Costa, Marina Hands, Lorraine de Sagazan... Many directors will be honored during the 2023-2024 season at the Comédie-Française, which will present 22 plays in total including 13 new productions, according to the program unveiled by the "house of Molière". Of the 22 plays that will be presented in the three halls of the institution, twelve are adapted by one or more directors. With thirteen new productions, nine revivals and eight shows on tour, the "house of Molière" considers itself faithful to "the mission assigned to it: to present all theaters, of all eras, French and foreign," says a statement from the institution.
Several adaptations of classic plays, such as Silvia Costa de Macbeth or Denis Podalydès from Scapin's Fourberies will be presented during this season. On the contemporary side, after having staged Ibsen and Chekhov, Lorraine de Sagazan will stage Le silence, inspired by the work of Italian filmmaker Antonioni, centered on incommunicability. Actress Marina Hands will feature Six characters in search of Pirandello's author.
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The 2023-2024 season will also be marked by the adaptation of L'Opéra de quat'sous by German director Thomas Ostermeier, which will be premiered with French actors in July at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival before being revived at the Comédie-Française. The 2021 adaptation of Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, by the couple of directors Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort, awarded three prizes at the Molières 2023 ceremony, will once again be on the program of the season. Finally, the successful comic strip Culottées (2016-2017) by Pénélope Bagieu, translated into twenty languages and which portrays women who have contributed "to moving the lines", will be adapted to the theatre in a staging by Justine Heynemann.