Stéphane Varupenne directs “the Suicide”, Delphine de Vigan defends “the Extras”

Published on November 18, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.

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At the Comédie-Française, Stéphane Varupenne brings “Suicide” back to life and, in her first play, Delphine de Vigan highlights “Les Figurants”.

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“The Suicide” did not end his life, it was Stalin who killed him. The Soviet Ubu king did not like the grotesque farce, written in 1928, by the Russian Nicolaï Erdman. He banned it before exiling its young author to Siberia, who never wrote another play. Was she so dangerous? No. It was just cathartic.

Sémione, a depressed unemployed man, plans to learn the helicon and commit suicide. At least that's what his voices believe…

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