VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival

detto Moliére

Teatro delle Albe

15/10/2010 , 21:00
16/10/2010 , 17:00

By: Marco Martinelli
Devised by: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari space
Light and costumes: Enrico Isola, Claire Pasquier
Original musics: Eloi Baudimont
Musicians: Marti Melia, Thomas Giry, Nico Roig
Historical consultancy and discussions on everything: Gerardo Guccini
With: Alessandro Argnani, Jean-Claude Derudder, Roberto Corradino, Lindsay Ginepri, Roberto Magnani, Mélissa Pire, Viviane Thiébaud, Guillaume Verstraete
And the students of Conservatoire Royal de Mons Aubeline Barbieux: Christophe Canu, Laure Cecilio, Mathilde Goeris, Sophie Guisset, Lionel Liégeois, Mathieu Moro, Anaïs Pellin, Jonathan Robert, Mélodie Valemberg, Marie Vanrossomme
Teenagers from the schools of Vignola
Technical directors: Enrico Isola, Manu Yasse
Sound technician: Julien Rasetti
Stage technician: Thibaut Dubois
Creation of space: Vincent Rutten
Assistant to the directions and translations: Francesco Mormino
Directed by: Marco Martinelli
Production: le manège.mons/Centre Dramatique, Teatro delle Albe-Ravenna Teatro, La Rose de Vents Scène Nationale Lille Métropole, la Maison de la Culture de Tournai in collaboration with Conservatoire Royal and Centre des Arts scéniques of Mons

Performed in italian and french

Running time: 2h

NATIONAL PREMIÈRE

"What is the theatre for a child today? An old curiosity? Could a child’s eye be excited by theatre today as Jean Baptiste Poquelin was excited in the mid 17th century when his maternal grandfather took him by the hand to see the tragedies of Corneille and Jean de Rotrou in Paris theatres?

And Jean Baptiste was especially enthusiastic about the turbulent chaos of the Saint Germain fair, watching the antics of the “whitefaces”, the actors in French farce, watching bogus doctors and whipped servants, watching the buffooneries of the “commedia” invented by the Italians. Farce in those days – starting with its etymology, “chopped meat for stuffing” – was the world chopped up and overturned by the actors’ skill, and Jean Baptiste would carry that skill with him when he became known as Molière and wrote The Miser and The Misanthropist with his stinging tragicomic vision. How far does the theatre go today? Is it still able to take the world to pieces and reveal its intimate fragility? But above all, can it do this with the joyous vitality of the past when an entire society, old and young, could laugh at the powerful and dream together around a stage? This is the challenge of our Detto Molière, a Molière who struggles, a Molière who wrestles, a short circuit between those old masters of the comic and the ghost of that fleeting and pathetic and everlasting happiness".
Marco Martinelli e Ermanna Montanari

www.teatrodellealbe.com

The show

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