“Libé” guides you through the pieces or dance shows to see, in Paris or in the regions. Also see: “L’Amante Anglais” with Sandrine Bonnaire and “Cécile” by Marion Duval.
To help our readers navigate the abundant cultural offerings, journalists from the Culture department of Libé clear the ground and give you the essentials of what they liked in the news of show releases. And every Saturday, find our top 10 of the week, all disciplines combined.
Theater
Little Players by François Chaignaud
In the underground world of the medieval Louvre, the choreographer invites spectators to wander freely through six small pieces. And gives access to a whole small underground people, tender creatures, fools dancing the Moorish, lyrical singers singing tunes from the 14th and 15th centuries with beach buoys in the shape of a pink flamingo tied on their heads. It’s Brueghel, Bosch. The show is presented alongside the “Figures du fou” exhibition, on the floors of the museum, to which the ticket for the piece gives rise to privileged conditions.
Little Players by François Chaignaud, from November 4 to 16 at the medieval Louvre. Nine slots per evening are available for reservation, from 7:30 p.m. to 10:10 p.m. As part of the Paris Autumn Festival.
The English lover by Marguerite Duras with Sandrine Bonnaire
The actress returns to the theater in a play by Marguerite Duras based on a news story where she wonderfully embodies a woman who searches with her interrogator for the motives of an assassination she committed.
The English Lover by Marguerite Duras, directed by Jacques Osinski, at the Théâtre de l’Atelier (75018) until December 31, then on tour.
The Suicideby Stéphane Varupenne
Directed by Stéphane Varupenne, Nicolaï Erdman’s play, censored in 1930, paints the portrait of a Stalinist society which had every reason to suppress itself. Too caricatured.
The Suicide, directed by Stéphane Varupenne, at the Comédie-Française until February 2.
Cecile by Marion Duval
With a talent for improvisation without simpering and crazy energy, the actress tells the story of her thousand lives in Cecile, directed by her friend Marion Duval.
Cecile, directed by Marion Duval on November 14 and 15 at the Quai d’Angers, then on tour to Tours, Orléans…
Square root of the verb to be of Wajdi Mouawad
Wajdi Mouawad reprises a play already performed at the Hill. Through five characters who become one, the director tells the fate of a Lebanese family devastated by the explosion of August 4, 2020 in Beirut. The brilliance of the staging and the abundance of trajectories make us forget some of the heaviness of the writing.
Square root of the verb to be, text and direction by Wajdi Mouawad, at the Théâtre de la Colline until December 22.
On the other shore after Chekhov, by Cyril Teste
Both a great evening on stage and a film performance, the liberated adaptation of Platonov by Chekhov reveals the banally monstrous relationships of the characters.
On the other shore according to Platonov by Chekhov, directed by Cyril Teste, from November 8 to 16 at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in Paris, on November 26, at the Equinoxe in Châteauroux, then in December in Amiens, Mans, Roubaix, etc.
Dark Master by Kurô Tanino,
The Japanese director brilliantly opens the theater season by creating a manipulated society that does not know its leaders. A new version of his piece The Dark Master.
Dark Master by Kurô Tanino, from November 6 to 8 at Bonlieu, Annecy national stage and from February 5 to 7, 2025 at the Comédie de Genève.
The Great Sensitives d’Elsa Garnet
At the TGP in Saint-Denis, the director gives a Romeo and Juliet revisited, where overly old children observe their immature parents with severity. A show teeming with ideas but also one full of downtime.
The Great Sensitives or the education of barbarians by Elsa Granat, November 7 and 8 Limoges, then to Dijon, Quimper…
Rhinoceros by Bérangère Vantusso
The director of the CDN of Tours modernizes Ionesco’s famous text and strips it of its post-war markers. It manages to give a double meaning to the dialogues, but loses their political force.
Rhinoceros after Ionesco, directed by Bérangère Vantusso. From December 5 to 14 at the Silvia Monfort Theater in Paris.
Tear by Caroline Guiela Nguyen
Between Paris, Bombay and Alençon, the director retraces the making of a princess’s wedding dress. His show is a feat, an ample, popular choral story of rare precision.
Tear by Caroline Guiela Nguyen, at the Comédie de Reims from November 20 to 21, at the Théâtre de Lille, from December 7 to 11, at the Douai national stage, December 18 and 19, at the Odéon in Paris, from January 7 . to Feb. 6 2025 etc.
Danse
Stampede by Olivia Grandville
Seven dancers deconstruct the assignments linked to their gender. An applied choreography which poorly masks a lack of originality on a theme that has been discussed many times.
Stampede by Olivia Grandville, Chaillot on November 30 at the Théâtre Liberté in Toulon; on January 18 at the Equinoxe in Châteauroux.
Alone on stage
The End of the Beginning by Solal Bouloudnine
In his childhood bedroom recreated on stage, Solal Bouloudnine plunges back, through an exciting gallery of characters, into his 90s haunted by the death of Michel Berger.
The End of the Beginning by Solal Bouloudnine at the Lepic theater (75018) every Monday, Tuesday at 9 p.m., and from November 3 also on Sundays at 7:30 p.m. Until January 5.
Musical
Hate, by Mathieu Kassovitz and Serge Denoncourt
Transposed into the France of Bardella and “Justice for Adama” with an ultra-unifying ambition, carried live by young rappers and breakers, the work of Mathieu Kassovitz sets the room ablaze again, thirty years after its cinema release. very mixed musical Seine.
Hate, so far nothing has changed, artistic direction and direction by Mathieu Kassovitz and Serge Denoncourt at the Seine musicale (92100) until January 5, from November 8 to 10 in Marseille, on the 15th and 16th in Lyon then on a national tour.
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