– In Carouge, Françoise Courvoisier has a meeting with “the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaé”
The theater director creates, hand in hand with José Lillo, a sober and crystalline staging of Racine’s “Phèdre”. Six other actors join them.
Published: 02.10.2024, 6:59 p.m.
Françoise Courvoisier hosts, performs and directs “Phèdre”, the Alexandrine masterpiece by Jean Racine.
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The meeting was predestined. Sooner or later, Françoise Courvoisier would not escape Phaedra – unless it’s the other way around. She, the fiery actress, the exalted director, the fervent theater manager had to one day publicly measure herself against this mythical figure of the lover who is both victim and guilty. The two women had met in the secret of a room at the Paris Conservatory, during a competition at the end of the 70s. But it takes maturity to confront the tragic heroine, and in that sense, late was undoubtedly better than early.
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