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The goal is to provide students with sensitive outlooks, to draw links between different pieces, artists, and issues everyone has an interest in, instead of saddling them with yet another class or theoretical piece of knowledge. Students have access to free, diverse and thorough content in several forms: talks or performances recorded in one our theatres, programmes created to be streamed (Théâtre à la table)... Claudel’s take “Forget understanding; in fact, simply forget” could very well be this programme’s motto, the aim being to take a candid, diagonal look on what you’re sure of and to be open to new things.

Stream on comedie-francaise.fr or on YouTube.

Théâtre à la table
By Delphine Seyrig
Directed by Françoise Gillard
made by Clément Gaubert
ONLINE THURS OCT 17 AT 8:30 P.M.

C’est lundi au Vieux-Co
with historian and Resistance specialist Catherine Lacour-Astol, theatre studies professor Christiane Page, and pensionnaire Danièle Lebrun

Recorded on December 2 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
ONLINE THURS DEC 19 AT 8:30 P.M.

C’est lundi au Vieux-Co
with author, composer, actor and director Abd El Malik, literature professor and French rap specialist Bettina Ghio, and sociétaire and company Doyen Thierry Hancisse

Recorded on October 7 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
ONLINE THURS NOV 14 AT 8:30 P.M.

By Guillaume Gallienne
Stream on YouTube

By Denis Podalydès
Stream on YouTube

C’est lundi au Vieux-Co with pensionnaire Yoann Gasiorowski and his guests

Recorded on December 16 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
ONLINE THURS FEB 13 AT 8:30 P.M.

C’est lundi au Vieux-Co
with composer, singer, actor and director Wasis Diop, director of the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration Constance Rivière, sociétaires Serge Bagdassarian and Bakary Sangaré

Recorded on February 10 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
ONLINE THURS APRIL 3 AT 8:30 P.M.

Théâtre à la table
By Alfred de Musset
Directed by Christian Gonon
made by Clément Gaubert

ONLINE THURS MARCH 6 AT 8:30 P.M.

Théâtre à la table
By Nathalie Sarraute
Directed by Jennifer Decker
made by Clément Gaubert

ONLINE THURS MARCH 13 AT 8:30 P.M.

Théâtre à la table
By Pierre Corneille
Directed by Suliane Brahim
made by Clément Gaubert

ONLINE THURS APRIL 24 AT 8:30 P.M.

C’est lundi au Vieux-Co
with actor, director, and former General Administrator of the house Marcel Bozonnet, actor and director Hervé Pierre, and sociétaire Dominique Blanc

Recorded on April 7 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
ONLINE THURS MAY 15 AT 8:30 P.M.

C’est lundi au Vieux-Co
with Sorbonne professor Florence Naugrette, and actor, director, set designer and General Administrator of the Comédie-Française Éric Ruf

Recorded on May 5 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
ONLINE THURS JUNE 12 AT8:30 P.M.

Broadcasting of Molière's Dom Juan,
directed by Emmanuel Daumas, filmed by Philippe Béziat

Likeit does every year, the Comédie-Française will celebrate Molière on January 15– including online. This year, the celebration will take place after Emmanuel Daumas’ production of Dom Juan, which premiered in 2022 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. Discover or rediscover this production before the live tribute to our “Boss”, broadcast from the Salle Richelieu.

ONLINE WED JAN 15 AT 8 P.M.

Honoré de Balzac by Clotilde de Bayser

La Peau de chagrin (The Wild Ass's Skin) is about a Faustian pact, a pact with the devil. Raphaël de Valentin hopelessly wanders through life. On a particularly desperate day, an old man offers to sell him a magic skin which makes all its owner’s dreams come true. But each time a wish is made, the skin shrinks, along with his life. Clotilde de Bayser reads extracts from this coming-of-age, fantasy novel.

ONLINE IN MID-NOVEMBER

Jean de La Bruyère by Didier Sandre

The work of a lifetime, the kind that’s always by an author’s side, written as he moves through life and through the changing of customs within the society of his era. La Bruyère’s Caractères gathers thoughts, proverbs, descriptions, holding up a mirror to his time and contemporaries. It is always important to be reminded of his timeless lesson: “We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.” Didier Sandre reads from Volumes 5 to 11, to offer the students preparing for the baccalauréat – and their parents – a lively, moving interpretation of this 17th century piece.

ONLINE IN MID-DÉCEMBER

Béline Dolat and Judith Chaine are back for a fifth season of Quelle Comédie!, the Comédie-Française’s news programme.

STREAM FROM MON SEPT 9
live on Facebook at 7 p.m.
Facebook and YouTube replay