Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
Directed by Denis Podalydès
Richelieu
23 December 2015 - 28 March 2016
Richelieu
Cyrano de Bergerac
2015-12-23 00:00:00 2016-03-28 00:00:00
“When, as actors of the Troupe, we stage plays, we unconsciously wish to show our theatre and everything that makes us love it and stay in it.”
It was in this spirit that Podalydès Denis, sociétaire of the Comédie-Française, took control of the boards of the Salle Richelieu for the first time in 2006. “It is to the soul of Cyrano that I wanted to dedicate this poem. But since it has passed into you, Coquelin, it is to you that I dedicate it”, announced Edmond Rostand. The author’s most famous work came about from a collaboration with the actor Benoît Constant Coquelin, first to perform the role in 1897. The same complicity is at work more than a century later in the energy of the group led by Denis Podalydès. Comic opera, tragedy, romantic drama, symbolist poem, farce... all genres combine to bring to life the partition of this emblematic text of the French repertoire. Cyrano is not scaled down, none of its excesses are culled. To let the audience revel in its set pieces, the action is heated to boiling point in a large crucible drawing on the full potential of the Comédie-Française: “we wanted the production to come out of the belly of our theatre, out of the cellars, the attics, the flies and the spaces underneath: the whole machine.” And it won six Molière awards in 2007.
Creative team
Mise en scène : Denis Podalydès
Décors : Éric Ruf
Costumes : Christian Lacroix
Réalisation sonore : Bernard Vallery
Réalisation vidéo : Anne Kessler
Maître d’armes : François Rostain
Maquillages : Véronique Nguyen
Conseillère chorégraphique : Cécile Bon
Dramaturgie : Emmanuel Bourdieu
Assistante à la mise en scène : Alison Hornus
Assistante pour le décor : Dominique Schmitt
Assistante aux maquillages : Laurence Aué
Distribution
the company
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Jérôme
PoulyCarbon de Castel-Jaloux, Jodelet, précieux (en alternance)
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Elsa
LepoivreLa Marquise, enfant, poète, Cadet, précieuse, Sœur Claire (en alternance)
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Pierre
HancisseLe Marquis, L’apprenti, Cadet, précieux (en alternance)
The Comédie-Française Academy
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Penelope
AvrilLe jeune homme, Aide de camp
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Vanessa
Bile-AudouardPrécieuse, Cadet
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Marianna
GranciTire-Laine, Cadet
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Laurent
RobertFlanquin, Cadet, un pâtissier
Gallery
Cyrano de Bergerac 15/16
Alain Lenglet, Michel Vuillermoz, Sylvia Bergé, Christian Blanc and Pierre Hancisse
Cyrano de Bergerac 15/16
Clément Hervieu-Léger, Sylvia Bergé, Gilles David, Hervé Pierre, Nâzim Boudjenah, Cécile Brune and Michel Vuillermoz
Cyrano de Bergerac 15/16
Françoise Gillard and Michel Vuillermoz
Cyrano de Bergerac 15/16
Christian Gonon, Laurent Natrella, Laurent Stocker, Marianna Granci, Claire de La Rüe du Can, Nâzim Boudjenah, Nicolas Lormeau, Laurent Robert, Pierre Louis-Calixte and Michel Vuillermoz
