Molière
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Molière : Amphitryon
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The god Jupiter is, once again, in love. But how to seduce the faithful Alcmène? By taking the traits of her husband! His servant Mercury, on the other hand, will be considered the valet Sosie. But here is that Amphitryon and Sosie come back from war... Quiproquos, misunderstandings, rebounds, Molière wields mythological fantasy with brilliance!
- Drama
Molière : Don Juan
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Of all Molière's comedies, Dom Juan is perhaps the most fascinating: it is that the enraged race of the "great evil lord", a cynical seducer and atheist flanked by a burlesque valet, allows us to explore all the tonalities of laughter – from the frank buffooning to such a corrosive irony sometimes becomes surprisingly serious, and almost disturbing.
- Drama
Molière : The Miser
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Money is the nerve of war in Avarius. It determines beings, whether old or young, rich or unspent, avarous or prodigal, and sinsinine at the heart of human relations. This great comedy created in 1668 staged a universe where everything is only contracts, and where everything has a price: eating, drinking, dressing, loving, not dying; a world where filial feelings are undermined by the pathological vice of a man who …
- Comedy
Molière : The School for Wives
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Arnolphe believes he has found the unstoppable way to marry without being deceived: he will take his pupil, Agnes, as wife, whom he has raised in the most complete ignorance of the things of life. But when the ingenuous young woman met Horace, the projects of the barbon were put to the wrong end...In L'École des femmes, which was one of her greatest successes, Molière asked about the place of women in a society rege…
- Comedy
Molière : The Bourgeois Gentleman
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Mr Jordan, a brave bourgeois, has only one dream: to become noble. To achieve this, all means are good. Does he learn music for love of art? He wants to shine in society. The fencing, to defend himself? He only aspires to carry the sword. Does he dress with search? He is less elegant than extravagant. And if he cultivates high-ranking associations, it is that Mr. Jordan is thinking of marrying his daughter, but to a…
- Comedy
Molière : The Imaginary Invalid
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Argan thought he was sick, and to conjure his fear of death, he made medicine his religion and entertainment. Molière did not believe in medicine: he believed in theatre. Died of a chest flow on February 17, 1673, on the evening of the fourth performance, he left the scene with a total show, a manifesto for youth, a final tribute to the force of truth of the theatre, a final pirouette d ́actor. We will never know wha…
- Drama
Molière : The Misanthrope
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Alceste, a fierce misanthropist, likes the Célimène coquette. Due to her bad mood and her brutal frankness, "the man with green ribbons" astonishes in the living room of her beautiful, populated by small frivolous marquis and amateur poets. Will Celimene give up her many sighs to follow Alceste in the retreat where he claims to take refuge?
- Drama
Molière : Tartuffe
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From his first performance, in 1664, Le Tartuffe, satire de la faux devotione et des excesses de la bigoterie, provoked scandal. In front of the accusations of "diabolic" immorality, Louis XIV made the play banned. She would be allowed to represent only after five years of struggles and polemics. On stage, an infamous naughty man disguised as a religious ardent sows chaos. Whether he's teasing one woman's knee or hi…
- Comedy
Molière : The Doctor in Spite of Himself
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Martine decides to avenge his drunken husband, the logger Sganarelle, by making him look like a doctor who agrees to exercise only if he is beaten. Combining scenic virtuosity, false patois, and gallant themes, the piece revives the tradition of anti-medical satire.This edition puts the work back in its time, and allows us to appreciate both the differences in reception between the 17th and 21st centuries, to medita…
- Comedy
Molière : The Learned Ladies
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Entire in Trissotin, poet of pacolette, Philaminte, Armande and Bélise are complacent in the joys of the mind. They discuss grammar, astronomy, metaphysics and morals. They boast to excess the exercise of reason to the detriment of the body. They exhibited their knowledge of the authors in vogue, derogating at all points from the rules of honesty. And were finally quite unable to detect Trissotin's true plan: to get…
- Comedy
Molière : The Impostures of Scapin
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A scoundrel, a bag, a snail: all the ingredients are combined for a comedy that, almost 400 years later, did not take a wrinkle. Beyond the farcedic comic that we know so well are the mechanics of a genre today unknown, the little comedy, which allows us to see the place that the Fourberies were able to take on the Parisian boards of Molière's time. At the other end of the chronological frieze, it is still the moder…
- Biography
Molière : The Affected Young Ladies
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Magdelon and Cathos, two provincials with noble passions and good words, seek in Paris the great love and the high exchanges discovered in the books. But when Gorgibus, father of Magdelon and uncle of Cathos, organizes a meeting with two suitors chosen for them, the two young women ridicul them in such a way that they scaffold a common vengeance.
- Comedy
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