This show is available to the hearing impaired
04/10/2010 - 20:30
13/10/2010 - 20:30
This show is available to the visually impaired
29/09/2010 - 20:30
11/10/2010 - 20:30
The Miser
“Harpagon runs, laughs and dances. He celebrates his money! The miser is the happy character in a horrible farce” says Catherine Hiegel. His love of money, this consuming, blinding passion even causes him to sacrifice his children, Élise and Cléante, who live in poverty despite their father’s vast wealth. He plans to marry his daughter to his neighbour Anselmo, making the irrefutable argument that the latter will take her “without a dowry” and is himself preparing to marry Mariane, whom Cléante is in love with. Accumulating money is his sole pleasure, the object of all his attention and concerns and yet he never thinks to enjoy it. When his treasure – his casket – is stolen from him, Harpagon’s world falls apart. For Catherine Hiegel, “The Miser is a black comedy of money driving people crazy and leading to murder and suicide.”
Elise
All men are alike in words;
It is only their deeds that make them different.
Act I, Scene I
The creation of this production was supported by Air France
