Reviewer's rating Gabriel Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 11/10/2022The beginning of this new season at the Comédie Française offers a look at George Sand’s work – a 19th...
Reviewer's rating Le Barbier de Séville Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/06/2022This season at the Opera Bastille nearly comes to its end with a refreshing production of Gioacchino Rossini’s opera buffa...
Reviewer's rating Les Précieuses Ridicules Pretentious Young Ladies Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 20/04/2022Is 2022 the year the Comédie Française goes camp? With Sébastien Pouderoux and Stéphane Varupenne’s new adaptation of Les Précieuses...
Reviewer's rating Le Tartuffe ou l’Hypocrite Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 30/01/2022For the 400th birthday of the iconic French playwright Molière, the Comédie Française pays homage to the man who started...
Reviewer's rating Les Démons Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 06/10/2021This season, the legendary Comédie Française takes on Dostoyevsky. Barely two years after Ivo Van Hove’s majestic and disturbing adaptation...
Reviewer's Rating Que ta volonté soit Kin (Thy Will Be Kin) Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/07/2021The first striking thing about coming to see a Congolese play directed by a Burkinabe artist and starring actors from...
REviewer's rating En Attendant les Barbares (Waiting for the Barbarians) Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 29/06/2021For my first time going back to the theatre in months, I was in a good mood and hoping to...
Reviewer's rating Talking Gods II – Orpheus Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/04/2021‘I am trapped in a myth that is not mine’, says a jaded Eurydice. This is perhaps the line that...
Reviewer's rating La Folle et Inconvenante Histoire des Femmes Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 27/10/2020The Crazy and Outrageous History of Women is a play whose title is impressive and full of promises. It starts...
Reviewer's rating Les Amis de Paul (Paul’s Friends) Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 02/10/2020Les Amis de Paul is a play built around the theme of violence, and it is divided into two parts:...
