Bajazet
by Jean Racine
Directed by Éric Ruf
Vx-Colombier
Vx-Colombier
Bajazet
2020-05-16 20:30:00 2020-06-28 15:00:00
Written in 1672 when Racine was at the peak of his fame, Bajazet is now one of his most rarely staged works.
Yet, it condenses the main themes of his theatre in a way that is unmatched by any other of his plays. Two fantasies are extraordinarily intertwined: that of the gynaeceum, the inner sanctum reserved to women, and that of power, which, incarnated by an absent ruler whose return is uncertain, is multiplied tenfold.
In leaving to besiege Babylon, Sultan Amurat has entrusted his favourite concubine Roxane with his powers. Suspicious of the ambitions of his brother Bajazet, whom he has confined to the seraglio, he has a messenger take a letter to the new Sultana with an order to put Bazajet to death. Meanwhile, the Grand Vizier Acomat, sensing he has fallen from favour, conspires to have Bajazet accede to the throne: he kills the messenger slave and organises a meeting between his protégé and Roxane, with the aim of making her fall in love with the latter and hand over power to him. Princess Atalide, whom he plans to marry, serves as his intermediary. All are unaware of the secret love that has united Bajazet and Atalide since childhood.
The seraglio thatÉric Ruf staged in 2017 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and described as the seat of power meeting the setting of absolute intimacy, acted as a sounding chamber: “rarely has a heart damaged by love been so well represented by a fictional setting: Racine concentrates his depiction of the vagaries of the heart in this setting, where the physical space reflects that of feeling, and the architecture of the seraglio that of inner twists and turns. There is no tragic wind here, no Corinthian capitals, no mythology but a more concrete, more narrative description of the wavering of the human heart.
BOOKINGS OPEN IN JANUARY 2020
2h15
Creative team
Staging and scenography: Éric Ruf
Costumes****: Renato Bianchi
Lights****: Franck Thévenon
Sound****: Dominique Bataille
Make-up and hairstyling : Catherine Bloquère
Artistic collabotation****: Claude Mathieu
Assistant stage manager****: Thomas Gendronneau
Assistant scenography****: Caroline Frachet
(currently being casted)
Distribution
the company
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2020-05-16 20:30:00
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