A Molière on acid at the Croix-Rousse theater in Lyon

Created in Versailles on July 18, 1668 during the “great royal entertainment” celebrating the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, then given in public at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on November 9 of the same year, Georges Dandin or the Confused Husband is a comedy-ballet written by Molière and embedded in a pastoral of Lully.

It is this Georges that is in question in the production of the Belgian company, the Clinic orgasm society Who tackles a classic of French theater for the first time to continue to deepen his research on norms, social categorizations and relationships of domination.

Obviously, Dandin is the ideal character to address these subjects, him the rich peasant buying himself a particle and a wife who despises and ridicules him throughout the play. This is scheduled from Tuesday January 28 to Saturday January 1^is February to Croix-Rousse theater in Lyon.

George by Molière at the Croix-Rousse theater: 14 actors, a crazy interpretation

And the Belgian company is having a blast. Known for its festive and irreverent excesses, the company created in 2001 by Mathylde Demarez et Ludovic Barth offers us a veritable festival of crazy pranks.

With great reinforcement of alpine bells, crazy sheep andaccessories of all kindsTHE fourteen performers dynamite everything, remaining absolutely faithful to the original text. They even kept the principle of pastoral care, a pretext for completely crazy dance interludes.

It must also be said that Lully’s scores have advantageously been replaced by an ultra-dynamic and lively electronic composition. It looks like Molière on acid and no doubt that Jean-Baptiste Poquelin would not have denied and on the contrary praised this version like no other! Jubilant!