The Misanthrope is played from this weekend at the D domain, François Maudu recounts the life in dance of Audrey Hepburn, Teclao presents his first album, Laurie Peret tells her life and hopes of stand up are for the first times at Pathé Odysseum. Here are five events to live in Montpellier from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 January.
Your Alexandrian dose
His favorite authors, those he liked to stage, it was more Shakespeare, and Brecht. A playwright like Molière, he left it to others and was not hurting it. But now Georges Lavaudant attacks Misanthrope, created here in Montpellier for the European City of theater, Domaine d’O. It is not just any piece of Molière. Considered the “classic of all classics”, it is one of the pieces written in Alexandrines. A whole universe. We are warned. Here, “no Louis XIV wigs, no candelabras, collaborators, wrapped sonnets”. A reduced decor and the text above all. A language embodied by finely chosen actors. It is Eric Elmosnino who seizes the role of Alceste. As entrusted in our columns on Saturday, January 18, the one who played Gainsbourg in Joann Sfar’s film, again, “there is no question to ask, must go for it”. For the actor Alceste, who denounces the hypocrisy of men “is constantly in struggle, in rage, against himself, and against the whole world”. However, he seems to have eyes only for the slight celimène.
In Audrey’s eyes
As a child, Audrey Hepburn learned classical dance. Dreaming of being “ballerina”, she will finally become a star of the big screen, accompanying the golden age of Hollywood cinema. Trained by Maurice Béjart, François MAUDUDI wanted to tell the life of Audrey Hepburn by offering a ballet led by 16 dancers. “A life that oscillates between hypersensitivity, disappointed loves, and inner peace” indicates the choreographer. This is not a biopic here but an evocation of the life of the actress by choreography by taking three periods of her life. The flashbacks allow you to reveal different facets of the British star. If the dance is neoclassical, on the music side, it goes from Gershwin to Bernstein via Piaf or Léo Ferré. These music, such as sets and costumes creating different atmospheres.
-Laurie Peret, soon somewhere
Laurie Peret comes to present her show designed last year: very soon somewhere. Chance of the calendar, she plays the day before Nora Hamzawi (this Sunday at 6 p.m. at the corum) for whom she made first games at her beginnings. In her first show, she played a single mom. This one is more personal warns the humorist, giving way to a borderline quadra to whom he arrives a lot of stories: broken heart, attraction for bad boys, loose house, many addictions. No longer throw it. Her daily life is “a chain of entertaining disasters of which she is the only responsible”. This is why, at the end of this show, rather feel good, she ends up meeting. She should play a few songs with her piano with retro funk colors.
Clap Comedy Club
The Stand Up has been on the rise for a few years already with talents that emerge here and there. Even Pathé cinema is getting started by launching its COMEDY CLUB CLAP. An evening bringing together five actors drawn from the Vivier of Montpellier humor. For this first meeting, you can see Baptiste Tinel, Camille Tissot, Idriss Kekhari and Louis Bonhoure. Obviously, it’s like a cinema session. You have comfortable armchairs and popcorn available.
Key
The Flamenco Jazz Teclao Flamenco Quartet released his first album Odisea on January 10. Now is the time to listen to what the four musicians do on the Jam stage. If you are not entirely familiar with flamenco, you can be guided by jazz tones and vice versa. For those who are not paid into any of these two genres, the group also interferes in current music. Carried by the flamenco song measured by Miguel Ramírez, Teclao also comes alive with the guitar Jules Meneboo, the keyboards of David Rekkab and the percussion of Olivier Roizes and always retains a beautiful balance between sensitivity and musicality.
