For years, Kressman Taylor’s novel has been adapted for the theater by Michèle Lévy-Bram and has enjoyed great success. The play returns to the Théâtre Antoine from October 3, 2024 to December 29, 2024.
Since the beginning there have been no representations ofUnknown at this address of Kressmann Tayloronly successful actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, Gérard Darmon, Richard Berry and Franck Dubosc, Stéphane Guillon and Gaspard Proust, then Jean-Paul Rouve and Elie Semoun. What beautiful people. Today, you will have the chance to see, on the stage of the Théâtre Antoine, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Stéphane Guillon in a new production by Jérémie Lippmann.
Written in the form of a literary correspondence, the text of Kressmann Taylor ppublished in 1938 in the United States, was reworked for the theater by Michèle Levy-Bram. At the heart of the text of TaylorThere is Martin et Max, two men carrying on a correspondence, while the Second World Warand that the rise of Nazism is obvious. As the exchanges progress, the tone dries up and we witness the infiltration of Nazi ideology into the ideas of one of the two characters.
The play, directed by Delphine de Malherbe had received the Crystal Globe 2013. A play considered useful and necessary for several years, it continues to attract a large number of spectators. Jeremie Lippman chose a sober staging at the Théâtre Antoine, highlighting the text of Kressmann Taylor and the acting.
Kressmann Taylorwhich is the pseudonym of Kathrine Kressmann Tayloris an American writer, best known for her short story Unknown at this address. The short story, originally published in a literary journal, had an enormous impact and remains today a powerful work about the complicity and dangers of fascist ideology, as demonstrated by its adaptation to Antoine Theater. Taylor had chosen at the time to write under a male pseudonym, because his publisher considered the work too harsh to be signed by a woman.
