T igran Mekhitarian leaves the stage exhausted but happy.
He has just played Léandre in
Les Fourberies de Scapin
in front of primary school classes and high school students, in Argentan, in Orne.
He directs eight actors in an “urban” adaptation punctuated by rap tunes, but faithful to Molière’s play.
Scapin (Sébastien Gorski) thus moves in a squat between wooden pallets.
“Tigran takes a text that is 400 years old and tells the kids: “It’s a sentence that you could have said in a playground,”
admires its producer, Pierre Boiteux.
We tell them the story of Molière in our words, sometimes we organize rap workshops, it's a first step
.
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According to Pierre Boiteux, the actor-director has a
“very respectful way of talking about theater and, at the same time, a crazy modernity in his way of approaching it
.
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“Young people are rediscovering
the classical language
,”
rejoices Tigran Mekhitarian, who has been highlighting the modernity of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin for almost…
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