Everything starts here with an oriental dance and everything will end with a dance of death. Accused of espionage, the one who was only a beautiful courtesan on holiday was shot, eyes wide open, on July 15, 1917. Mata Hari is a fantasy. The cinema made its fat cabbages (Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich or Jeanne Moreau). All that was missing was another theatrical adaptation. That has been done and, let us say it, in a beautiful way.
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This Mata Hari ou la Justice des hommes, by Marc Fayet, lacks neither know-how nor humour. The play is constructed in an efficient and conventional way: Mata Hari (Ariane Mourier) is facing Captain Bouchardon (Olivier Claverie), in charge of interrogating him before his trial for intelligence with the enemy.
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Bouchardon makes the litany of all the German lovers of the beautiful Dutchwoman, and it is very long: "You conceive," he says, "that it is difficult for the French justice not to see here a very marked sympathy for...
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