What to do in Paris this weekend of November 22, 23 and 24, 2024?

Go to the theater

Is it still possible to bring something new to a novel that has already been adapted a hundred times for cinema and series, and not always for the better? The answer is yes! Certainly, the story is known: the Marquise de Merteuil and the Viscount de Valmont, once lovers, became accomplices in a Machiavellian game. These devious puppeteers manipulate innocent women to demonstrate to others their superiority in terms of feelings and seduction. Their prey? The ingénue Cécile de Volanges and the rebellious widow Madame de Tourvel. From the epistolary masterpiece of Choderlos de Laclos, the director Arnaud Denis has kept all the salt, to which he has added here and there a few elements and salient traits of humor. He draws out amazing theatrical material for the main quartet of actors. Delphine Depardieu (Merteuil) and Valentin de Carbonnières (Valmont) are fantastic masters of ceremonies. Candelabra and candles, painted canvases, here a dressing table, there a shepherdess, and Beethoven's “Symphony No. 7”, which opens and closes hostilities, no doubt, we are heading towards disaster. And the spectators, witnesses to this skillfully orchestrated theater of cruelty, experience fierce jubilation.

“Dangerous Liaisons”, after Choderlos de Laclos, at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées Paris 8^e. Until December 31. More information here.

Discover a cultural festival

For its new edition, the Un weekend à l’Est festival is dedicated to Armenia. Until November 30 and under the sponsorship of pianist André Manoukian and dancer Rima Pipoyan, the event offers the opportunity to (re)discover many artists from Eastern Europe through several artistic disciplines. On the program: concerts, plays, dance shows, exhibitions, screenings… Literary meetings will also be offered, as well as an evening tribute to Charles Aznavour, on the occasion of his centenary. All these events will take place in several cultural venues in Paris, such as the Odéon, the Alliance Française theater and the Gaité Lyrique.

Festival A weekend in the East, until November 30, 2024. More information here.

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Mobilize

This Friday, November 22, at the Communale Saint-Ouen, the Soutien Ciivise collective – in partnership with Stop Sexual Violence – is organizing the first edition of the 160,000 children festival. An initiative which aims to fight against sexual violence against children and to challenge the political class, the media and the general public. To do this, many personalities such as Sara Forestier, Édouard Durand, Noémie de Lattre, Alma Jodorowsky, Neige Sinno and Sylvie Hoarau will be present. Signing sessions, exhibitions, round tables with associations, speaking engagements, readings and concerts are organized to liven up the evening.

Festival 160,000 children at the Communal, 10 bis rue de l'Hippodrome 93400 Saint-Ouen. Friday November 22 from 5 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Admission: €15. More information here.