2.0★ ★ Gabriel Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 11/10/2022 The beginning of this new season at the Comédie Française offers a look at George Sand’s work - a 19th Century feminist icon widely known for her nove...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Le Barbier de Séville Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/06/2022 This season at the Opera Bastille nearly comes to its end with a refreshing production of Gioacchino Rossini’s opera buffa The Barber of Seville. Dire...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Les Précieuses Ridicules Pretentious Young Ladies Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 20/04/2022 Is 2022 the year the Comédie Française goes camp? With Sébastien Pouderoux and Stéphane Varupenne's new adaptation of Les Précieuses Ridicules, it see...
3.0★ ★ ★ Le Tartuffe ou l’Hypocrite Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 30/01/2022 For the 400th birthday of the iconic French playwright Molière, the Comédie Française pays homage to the man who started it all. This season is indeed...
1.0★ Les Démons Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 06/10/2021 This season, the legendary Comédie Française takes on Dostoyevsky. Barely two years after Ivo Van Hove’s majestic and disturbing adaptation of The Dam...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Que ta volonté soit Kin (Thy Will Be Kin) Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 07/07/2021 The first striking thing about coming to see a Congolese play directed by a Burkinabe artist and starring actors from all over Africa, at the Odeon Th...
3.0★ ★ ★ En Attendant les Barbares (Waiting for the Barbarians) Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 29/06/2021 For my first time going back to the theatre in months, I was in a good mood and hoping to see something that would make me escape reality for two hour...
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 captures best the essence of this adaptation and reint...
La Folle et Inconvenante Histoire des Femmes Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 27/10/2020 The Crazy and Outrageous History of Women is a play whose title is impressive and full of promises. It starts in a very direct and powerful way: the p...
Les Amis de Paul (Paul’s Friends) Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 02/10/2020 Les Amis de Paul is a play built around the theme of violence, and it is divided into two parts: the first one occurs in an unnamed ex-Soviet country,...
