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"The Argument" by Marivaux, the Vieux Colombier by Muriel Mayette

Muriel Mayette, the director of the French comedy showcases at the Vieux Colombier, "Dispute" Marivaux. This short comedy in prose, created in 1744, was whistled for his creation, and few filmmakers have ventured to return, except that Chéreau in 1973 gave a legendary performance.

In this philosophical play, love the hassle and testing of emotions, the recurring themes in the work of Marivaux, take a surprising form, that of an in vivo experiment whose cruelty Sade recalls more than subtle language games in "The false confidence" or "The Game of Love and Chance".

A Prince (Thierry Hance) Hermiane and his lover (Marie-Sophie Ferdan) argue about the fickleness of love and the origin of infidelity: that the man or woman, betrays the first? To resolve this issue, the Prince proposed to observe the outcome of an experiment devised by his father who was raising teenagers alone, without any contact with other human beings apart from the two black servants, Mesrou (Eebra Toor) and CARIS (Bakary Sangare, disguised as a woman). The Prince and Hermiane observe these human guinea pigs move from self-discovery (and their reflection in a stream) to discover the other, fall in love, betrayal, reconciliation. The result of the experience (or at least manipulation orchestrated by the Prince through the two servants) is final, the men and women are doomed to a perpetual inconstancy which makes impossible the inclusion of the love in time. If

Muriel Mayette the merit of presenting a clear and committed personal reading room, his staging has two flaws:

The beginning of the play is too long and heavy, why have added this prologue extracted from other Marivaux's works while the attack original was sufficiently strong and clear: "Where do we go, Lord, here is the place of the world's wildest and most solitary, and nothing has announced the party you promised me? . In addition, there is no need here to emphasize the line by starting the play by rales suggestive of Hermiane offstage and vision of a prince who loosen up sloppy: it is a matter of desire, the text Marivaux is clear enough that the viewer understands.

The will clearly demonstrate the cruelty of the Prince gum experience the charm and lightness of the text, retaining only darkness. Young people are not only victims of the madness of Prince handlers. The game, too pressed, lack of subtlety. The jerking of teenagers near hysteria (especially Anne Kessler, who nevertheless is an actress capable of more subtlety) express nothing of the freshness put forward by other directors. The innocence of the characters tend to be confused with weakness, especially when they jump on hand to express their joy.

That said, the text of Marivaux is wonderful and the cast, full of energy.

"Dispute" by Marivaux, directed by Muriel Mayette the Vieux Colombier until March 15, 2009.

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"The City" by Martin Crimp, by Marc Paquien

Heir Pinter, Martin Crimp is a living British authors the most played in France. "The City", directed by Marc Paquien begins as a bourgeois comedy or a farce. One evening

Claire (Marianne Denicourt), a translator, tells her husband Christopher (Andre Marcon ) meeting with a writer who gave him a book. The husband announces that it has just lost his job as an executive in a company. Later, the neighbor very strange nurse (Helen Alexandridis ) came to complain about the noise of children in the garden starts with excitement in a story which speaks to her doctor husband away at war and men hiding in the sewers for survive, "those who cling to life." Clear part in a seminar translation Christopher plays with a strange little girl, double miniature of neighboring nurse. Gradually

details challenge the viewer and bore uncanny in this day that seems commonplace: the little girl why she hands stained with blood? The nurse is she really or is it a character from the imagination of Claire? What is this war about which the nurse? It is this blurring between reality and unreality more banal the most threatening is the strength of Martin Crimp . Behind the humor, absurdity, anguish pierces true, an insidious threat. Doubt on the reality represented is never fully dissipated and the viewer in an endless questioning about the theatrical illusion.

Everything is fair, accurate, perfectly controlled. Since the admirable diction all excellent actors to set design which drew a sleek, abstracted, which sometimes appears in the background, like a mirage a bench or tree. The glossy black ground casts a fresh light on the actors as if they were lit by candles. Worth seeing.

In Paris it's over, it will go to the Comédie de Picardie of Amiens of February 17 to 21, with the Avant-Scene Colombes March 7, at the National Theatre of Bordeaux 12 and 13 March, 17 to 21 March at the Centre National Drama Lille, the 24 and March 25 at the Gangway La Rochelle and March 28 at the Theatre de l'Olivier in Istres .

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"I searched" by Charles Juliet, read by the author and Valerie Dréville, CD

Charles Juliet, French writer born in 1934, discussed his work in almost all genres: newspaper, intimate story with "flaps" and "The Year of Awakening", new theater , poetry. "I tried" is a collection of prose poems where, sculptured in a language precise and refined, Juliet explores loneliness, its past and redemption through writing.

In this audiobook, diction precise and clear tone of Valerie Dréville illuminate the text of Juliet. The actress with a career rich - she played with Vitez Régy Vassiliev-associate artist of the Avignon Festival 2008 is well known to fans of experimental theater, risky and demanding. His sober and musical interpretation suggests the live matter of the language of Juliet.

"I searched" by Charles Juliet, read by the author and V. Dréville, CD audio, editor "Women," The library collection of votes, 18 €.

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"Voice" by Denis Podalydès, reading festival text and voice

It is rare to find so much talent concentrated in one man: theater actor (resident at the French Comedy at the moment he plays in "L'illusion comique"), actor (in films such as Emmanuel Bourdieu), director ("Fantasio" and especially "Cyrano" at this time Richelieu Room), writer (author of a noted "scenes from the life of an actor), Denis Podalydès read that evening of excerpts from" Voice "in the festival" Texts and Voices. " Originally this book, commissioned by Colette Fellous offering to do his portrait. To speak of him Podalydès chose to imply other voices: voices that emerge from childhood, like her grandmother, mother, friends or teachers, voice or radio drama, voice of movie ... The

Reading begins with a tragicomic novel that tells the difficult love learning the "bumbling" fictional double of the author. From laughter to emotion, Podalydès comes to discussing his love for books in a passage in the recording studio: "Is it for me instead spared, shelter safer, more peaceful retirement, that a recording studio? Enclosed on all sides, encapitonné, sitting alone in front of the microphone, loudly - effortless projection, in the medium - two or three hours, I read the pages of a book. The world is then that of this book. The world is in the book. The world is a book. "

Nothing is as evocative a voice - except perhaps a perfume, and yet words fail to describe these sensations elusive and strange that carries one vote. Yet Podalydès find the right image that has the clarity of the evidence: Charles Denner? "A voice of courage, voices of anguish light voice that goes, voice search," Dussolier? "Campaign at sunset night, noisy, quiet, secret "...
And throughout the evening imperceptibly emerges from these poignant voice vote Podalydès Denis, not the actor or performer, but the writer.

"Voice", by Denis Podalydès, Mercure de France (book + CD), 244 p., 25 €.
Texts and Voices: http://www.textes-et-voix.asso.fr/

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"Minetti" Thomas Bernhard, directed by André Engel

Terrible abyss into the theater of the Hill, where, led by Andre Engel, Piccoli embodies Minetti, aging haunted the great actor by King Lear, a role played by Piccoli three years ago under the direction of the Andre Engel.

An evening of New Year's Eve, Minetti Piccoli-landed in the lobby of a hotel in Ostend where he is supposed to meet with the director of a theater that has offered to play "King Lear" role the actor repeats every night for 30 years. The director will not come. In the meantime, Minetti talking to the doorman of the hotel, a woman drunk and alone, a young girl who awaits her fiancé. It rehashing his life, his career ruined by his refusal to play the classics, he evokes the character Lear that haunts him since he played for the first time in 18 years, he speaks Mask Lear the sculptor Ensor created especially for him, he thinks about his theatrical vocation.
In part that Thomas Bernhard created in 1976 to actor Bernhard Minetti Minetti's character is puzzling: the theater director has he really made an appointment? Minetti is it brilliant or insane? Often directors do not settle this ambiguity. Here, early in the piece above, Engel removes the actor loses all trace of his greatness and takes the character toward mediocrity Minetti by making a doddering grandpa. By cutting the end of the room where the old actor disappears into the snow, Engel impoverishes the meaning of the piece.

So many similarities between the character, Thomas Bernhard Minetti and actor Piccoli - old age, King Lear, talent - disrupt and embarrass the viewer. When Piccoli rehashing his obsessions in a quavering voice is it the actor or the character who seems to get his text? The decor massive Nicki Rieti, a large old-fashioned hotel, which seems to crush the character only adds to the discomfort. This discomfort disappears during the show because the rate is less hesitant Piccoli, His voice brightened, and the doting old man from the beginning of the piece turns into a tragic hero. It is in the third game, when Minetti soliloquy with the girl (played by the luminous Julie-Marie Parmentier) it appears to regain its aura.

Thomas Bernhard Minetti, directed by Andrew Engel at Theatre on the Hill until February 7, 2009, then on tour to Rheims, Geneva, Berlin, Villeurbanne, Grenoble, Lille, Lausanne, Toulouse .