La Mère Coupable – Adaptation of Beaumarchais by Laurent Hatat et Thomas Piasecki
Address: 7 Rue Orsel, 69600 Oullins | Event Map | Venue accessibility
Performance in French without subtitles.
La Mère Coupable (EN: The Guilty Mother) or L'Autre Tartuffe (EN: The Other Tartuffe) is a drama in five acts completed in 1792. It is the third and final part of Figaro's trilogy, after The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro.
Twenty years after Figaro's famous wedding, in full revolutionary effervescence, the Almaviva family returns from Mexico and stops in Paris. We find the Count and Rosine, Figaro and Suzanne, Léon, illegitimate child of the Countess, Florestine, ward of the Count, as well as the Irishman Bégearss who covets the fortune of the Count and the hand of Florestine...
In this little-known episode, Beaumarchais talks about family secrets, love and death, underprivileged children, male domination, fanatic religiosity, dreamed independence and constructed and nurtured female guilt. Another way of telling the story of political manipulation and compromise.
A saga between drama and comedy, in which we will see that it is always fun to talk about the troubles of the bourgeoisie while playing on the liveliness and cheerfulness of a text that resonates surprisingly today.
Genre: Theatre
Price: €16-32
Credits:
From Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
With Olivier Balazuc, Azeddine Benamara, Anne Duverneuil, Emma Gustafsson, Kenza Laala, Pierre Martot, Mathias Zakhar jeu
Director: Laurent Hatat
Adaptation and dramaturgy: Laurent Hatat, Thomas Piasecki
Music: Julien Tortora
Costume design: Isabelle Deffin
Light : Anna Sauvage
Co-production : Comédie de Picardie à Amiens, Château Rouge à Annemasse, Le Bateau Feu – Scène nationale de Dunkerque, Théâtre Paul Éluard à Choisy-le- Roi, Escher Theater à Luxembourg. Soutiens : Théâtre de La Renaissance – Oullins Lyon Métropole, Théâtre de Nîmes, Le Chevalet à Noyon, Théâtre du Nord – CDN Lille – Tourcoing, La Chartreuse – CNES à Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, Fonds d’insertion de l’École du Nord et participation artistique de l’Ensatt.
