And sewn together all of this is a comedy

Had Pierre Corneille absorbed illicit substances in the writing of "The comic Illusion" He warned: "this is a strange monster." The first act is but a prologue; the following three, an imperfect comedy; the last is a tragedy. And sewn together, all of this is a comedy. It appoints the bizarre and extravagant invention as long as you want, it is new.

Room mirrors and drawers (three stories in one), between loving banter, story of cape and sword and moralistic tale, this "Monster" is above all a formidable letter love Theatre, that the directors and actors love read and "replay".

Primadant too hard raised his son, Clindor, and caused him to flee. A visionary mage, he found its trace and attends two episodes of his life in the shadow Viewer. Servant of a pathological liar soldier, Matamore, Clindor he dispute his "beloved", the beautiful Isabelle. But to win the girl, he must kill her fiancé, Adrastus. Imprisoned, he escapes with Lysis through, the servant of Isabelle, there also séduite Years later, is found Clindor and Isabelle in a scene from household that goes wrong. Primadant, desperate, believed lost his son for good, when the dead are. The prodigal became actor and the father attended a piece of announcement

La belle directed by Elisabeth Chailloux currently brings to the neighbourhoods of Ivry. The young woman is betting the simplicity and the youth. A veil, a moon, a crooked House at the fenêtres funny The sober décor of Yves Collet, bathed of a twilight or golden light, gives a delicate fantastic touch to the show. The tempo, the economy of means and actions are used the text, which comes out hot, very beautiful from the mouth of the actors, as if it had been written yesterday Not too Elisabeth Chailloux disrupts the tradition - thus Blusterer seems straight out of the commedia dell'arte. But it imposes on his young troupe a clear diction, a good phrasing of today which is fly. The dream of Crow Theatre through the centuries without penalty. Until the invention of the cinématographe

After Claude Mouriéras, who attacked the "sharing of noon", Paul Claudel, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, which took "Just the end of the world", Jean-Luc Lagarce, it is Mathieu Amalric Murielle Mayette, the patron saint of French, was assigned the task to adapt for the screen a part of the directory. He chose "L'illusion comique" (). "With two constraints, recalled salle Richelieu, on the evening of the preview." Only use the words of the author and replace the plateau by the camera instrument instrument. "Mathieu Amalric used to quip in return that:" as the command was very fun, very simple with plenty of constraints, I have a foreign language Express: the Alexandria. "

Here is therefore the "Monster" of Pierre Corneille turned in 13 days by an Amalric in verve. His stroke of genius is to have installed the cave of the magician across the street, in the Hotel du Louvre. The mage is the head of the hunters of the palace. And the cave in which he reveals his illusion, the video surveillance of hotel central, buried in the bowels of Paris. Racing-prosecution in the basements, regulations of accounts in the Tarantino on the roof of the hotel of the Louvre (with bird's-eye view of the House of Molière), destruction of Jaguar to rounds of golf club underground, handling of sword in full business lunch, video game of mass destruction, "men in black franco-nippon atrium and large-calibre, shooting in night music techno : the troupe in great shape gloats at each stage without take foot in the "twelve", or forget to hyphenation. Amalric made his eternal youth in "the strange monster" imagined by Corneille. In one hour 17, it is folded.