The shows to see at the moment: « the English lover » of Duras, « anatomy of a suicide » by Rauck and « I was found growing » of the company 14:20 – Liberation

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Some pieces are done with everything except actors. This is the case with the English lover of Marguerite DurasCreated for and with Madeleine Renaud in 1968, and played, this spring, in a staging of the Franco-Swiss actress in his forties Emilie Charriot with, O Absolute happiness, three giants of the public theater: Nicolas BouchaudLaurent Poitrenaux and Dominique Reymond. They had never participated in the same show. Read their interview here.

With an incisive text and interpreters all and all stunning, Alice Birch’s play, which addresses the traumatic history of three women from the same family, gives off a prodigious force in the staging inspired by Christophe Rauck. Our criticism to read here.

Combining theater, dance, digital art and magic, the ambitious project of the company 14:20 plunges the spectator at the borders of the unreal, advancing in the corridors of the Psy-Salpêtrière Psy unit at the end of the 19th century. Our criticism.

For its new creation, the company combines theater of objects and video to recreate a conquest of the space mixed with conspiracy theories in the tall air of time. Our review.

The Parisian theater of Bouffes du Nord replayed the play of the great director who died three years ago, who had repeatedly returned to the storm from Shakespeare. The opportunity to find the long interview that Brook gave to Release in 2021.

Convening the legendary creature protector of the Jewish people, the filmmaker signs a theatrical superproduction carried by a very successful live musical composition, despite some access to grandiloquence. Read our review.

Stanislas Nordey stages The Hôtel du Libre-Echange at the Grenoble MC2, before a long tour. Between frightening technicality and the desire to produce a great spectacle, Vaudeville becomes a manifesto in front of the budget cuts that aim for the performing arts. Read our report on rehearsals.

The spectacle of Petr Forman, adaptation of a Persian poem from the 12th century, is a charming and timeless fable on the way of escaping tyranny, which resonates particularly with our horrifying news. Find our review.

He stacks up for the 4th edition at the Glass Menagerie: ten dance shows and performances, often emerging. Tsirihaka Harrivel, who collaborates with Vimala Pons, and connects in Cruel too late circus, music hall and performative arts; Xavier Le Roy, artist but also doctor of molecular biology, who studies the figure of the monster from every angle in Monsters of circumstances ; or the choreographer Zoé Lakhnati who collaborated with Mette Ingvartsen, Mathilde Monnier, Leïla Ka or Némo Flouret with her show This is death.

François Cluzet goes back on stage after twenty-five years to play with accuracy a patient interned in a psychiatric unit, in the adaptation of a novel by Denis Michelis, directed by Emmanuel Noblet. Read our review.

In 1978, the British Harold Pinter published Betrayals. Four years later, the play is created in France, where, since then, it comes up regularly on the bill. As at the beginning of the year, in a staging by Tatiana Vialle, who, at the Théâtre de l’Eur, directs his son, Swann Arlaud, surrounded by Marie Kauffmann and Marc Arnaud. The room replayed the micmac of a love triangle starting at the end. Read our review.

The director presents an « augmented spectacle » on adolescence and the masks we wear and which must be rid of during this intense period of life. First on Instagram, where the characters Marilou, Jules-Elie, Alma … have an account that can be followed. Then, in the theater hall, an hour before the performance, where a virtual reality experience (VR) allows you to take the place of one of the six characters invited to an evening at Alma. And finally on the stage, where we all find them, this time embodied by actors, the day after the evening that we have just lived. Read our report.

After the success of his adaptation of Repair the living, Emmanuel Noblet stages a novel by Tanguy Viel which relates the judgment of a scam case. A political fable against the background of class struggle with mystical accents.

Two shows allow you to find the great choreographer, officially retired. Fatal blow is a world show, a choreographic explosion that precipitated the Baroque opera in a Congolese concert. Ten years after its creation, the play has the value of aesthetic and political manifesto, redoubled by another recovery, the extraordinary Out of context. For pinawhere a community of artists from all backgrounds landed on the set the body wrapped in covers … survival? We were in 2010. Read our interview with Alain Platel.

The mission of Blanket La Goulue, a non-binary creature from the prolific Brussels Drag scene, is precise and written in all letters on its Instagram profile: « Deconstructing what Sardou has put a career to build. » In Brussels, the artist Drag offers a committed musical stand-uprich in resistance against patriarchy but also in tender self -mockery.

Trampoline is not the most common apparatus in contemporary circus. At least in representation, his job is often circumscribed to the educational part. This is not the case in the spectacle of the company outside the surface since there is not a trampoline, but two, assembled to a clever removable scaffolding that completes a large vertical wall in plexi finishing to promote the execution of figures, sometimes synchronized, as breathtaking as fluid. Find our criticism.

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