Les Fourberies de Scapin
"Scapin The Schemer"
by Molière
Directed by Denis Podalydès
Richelieu
9 October 2019 - 2 February 2020
Richelieu
Les Fourberies de Scapin
09 Oct 2019 02 Feb 2020
Twenty years after the previous production of "Les Fourberies de Scapin" [Scapin The Schemer], Denis Podalydès opened the 2017-2018 season with this major work by Molière, which has been performed more than 1,500 times by the Comédiens-Français.
“A troupe play, written not for the Court but for the people”, it premiered in 1671 at the Palais-Royal during a period of construction work. Molière wished to free himself of the constraints of the comédies-ballets and machinery-driven comedies and come back to “pure theatre”. As a result, this is a play that offers the director a great freedom.
The action is set in Naples, opening a door onto an imagined maritime world stretching towards the Orient. Faced with two authoritarian fathers, two sons, both of whom are thwarted lovers, turn to the crafty Scapin, who is driven by a mad desire for revenge. The character is a double of Scaramouche, the Italian actor of the adventurous life whom Molière admired: “to tell you the truth, there are few things that are impossible for me, when I put my mind to them” declares the buffoonish servant whose name, as Denis Podalydès points out, derives his from the Italian scappare which means “to escape”, “to scamper off”. Scapin is beaten with a stick at one point but also gets his own back and, against a background of ransom demands and paternal contradictions, he comes up with an avalanche of stratagems and other tricks, which Molière excels in depicting. After a regional tour of France in autumn 2018, the production is returning to the Salle Richelieu before going back on the road in France and Europe in spring 2020.
On Tour
In France and around Europe PRINTEMPS 2020
Duration
1:45 (without intermission)
Venue
Creative team
Directed by: Denis Podalydès
Scenography: Éric Ruf
Costumes: Christian Lacroix
Lights: Stéphanie Daniel
Sounds: Bernard Valéry
Make-up: Véronique Soulier-Nguyen
Collaboration: Leslie Menu
Assistant stage manager: Alison Hornus
Assistant scenography: Dominique Schmitt
Distribution
the company
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Élise
LhomeauZerbinette (alternately)
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The Comédie-Française Academy
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Salomé
BenchimolCarle
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Flora
ChéreauNérine
Calendar
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Wed 9 Oct 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Fri 11 Oct 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sun 13 Oct 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Mon 14 Oct 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Fri 18 Oct 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sat 19 Oct 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Sun 20 Oct 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Wed 23 Oct 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Mon 28 Oct 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Fri 1 Nov 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Sun 3 Nov 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Fri 8 Nov 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sat 9 Nov 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Sun 10 Nov 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Mon 11 Nov 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Fri 15 Nov 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sun 17 Nov 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sat 23 Nov 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Wed 27 Nov 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sat 30 Nov 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Thu 5 Dec 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sat 7 Dec 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Wed 11 Dec 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Mon 16 Dec 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Fri 20 Dec 2019
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sat 21 Dec 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Tue 24 Dec 2019
20h30
de 16 à 43 €
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Thu 26 Dec 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Sat 28 Dec 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Mon 30 Dec 2019
14h00
de 5 à 43 €
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Thu 2 Jan 2020
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Sun 5 Jan 2020
20h30
de 5 à 43 €
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Fri 10 Jan 2020
20h30
de 6 à 43 €
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Sat 11 Jan 2020
14h00
de 6 à 43 €
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Mon 13 Jan 2020
20h30
de 6 à 43 €
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Thu 16 Jan 2020
20h30
de 6 à 43 €
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Tue 21 Jan 2020
20h30
de 6 à 43 €
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Tue 28 Jan 2020
20h30
de 6 à 43 €
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Sun 2 Feb 2020
14h00
de 6 à 43 €
Gallery
Les Fourberies de Scapin 19/20
Birane Ba, Benjamin Lavernhe, Jean Chevalier
Les Fourberies de Scapin 19/20
Didier Sandre, Gilles David
Les Fourberies de Scapin 19/20
Élissa Alloula, Bakary Sangaré, Pauline Clément
Les Fourberies de Scapin 19/20
Pauline Clément, Élise Lhomeau, Benjamin Lavernhe
Les Fourberies de Scapin 19/20
Benjamin Lavernhe, Didier Sandre
Les Fourberies de Scapin 19/20
Adeline d’Hermy, Pauline Clément, Flora Chéreau
Les Fourberies de Scapin 19/20
Salomé Benchimol, Julien Frison, Adeline d’Hermy, Benjamin Lavernhe, Bakary Sangaré, Nicolas Lormeau, Didier Sandre, Gaël Kamilindi
