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La cantatrice chauve / The Bald Soprano
by Eugène Ionesco
CAST:
DOAMNA SMITH - Mireille Herbstmeyer
DOMNUL SMITH - Jean-Louis Grinfeld
MARY - Elizabeth Mazev
DOAMNA MARTIN - Emmanuelle Brunschwig
DOMNUL MARTIN - Olivier Achard
CĂPITANUL DE POMPIERI - Christophe Garcia
Directed by: Jean-Luc Lagarce
Artistic director: François Berreur
Costume design: Patricia Dubois
Set design: Laurent Peduzzi
Light design: Didier Etievant
Sound design: Christophe Farion
Play duration: 1h 30min (without intermission)
Producer Cie Les Intempestifs
With the support: Nouveau Théâtre / C.D.N. de Besançon et de Franche-Comté et du T.N.B. (Théâtre National de Bretagne) Rennes.
Producer of the original performance in 1991: Théâtre de la Roulotte – C.D.N. de Franche-Comté cu susţinerea Centre d’Art et de Plaisanterie de Montbéliard.
Photo: © Brigitte Enguerand
After the death of the famous French playwright and stage director Jean Luc Lagarce, his team decided to mark the day that would have been his 50th anniversary by restaging a hit bearing his signature.
Reuniting the memories of all the actors in the Bald Soprano show that premiered in 1992, Francois Berreur, one of Lagarce’s close partners took the artistic responsibility to remount the show identically. His initiative found crucial help in the miraculous discovery of the intact original set. The moment of the remake’s premiere, 2006, meant the rebirth of a show that was to be invited to many festivals, its success reminding of Lagarce’s personality.
Jean Luc Lagarce was born in 1957 and died in 1995 of AIDS. Currently he is the most staged author in France, after Shakespeare and Moliere. The simplicity of his words, the profoundness and originality of the subjects of his plays, and the originality of his syntax have turned him into a classic, according to specialists. His plays are translated and staged around a multitude of countries.
In Bucharest, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous playwright Eugene Ionesco, Les Intempestifs company opens the 2009 NTF with The Bald Soprano, with the essential support of the French Institute in Bucharest.
