Description

Molière suffered from the slander caused by his marriage, which was rumored to be incestuous. Would Madeleine Béjart, his partner of 30 years, keep his secret?<div> Madeleine Béjart. A woman of power. An acclaimed actress, company director, and playwright, who successfully built her theatre and, with it, her entire family. In a world of obstacles, cruelty, disease, corruption, and violence. In the service of Louis XIV, she stood tall, surrounded by her enemies.</div><div><br></div><div> Did she cede her power to Molière? If woman effaces herself before man in society, she does not abandon her share in intimacy.</div><div> The play explores the last thirteen years of this couple's life, focusing on their most intimate moments: their nights. This free-spirited man and woman, who defied excommunication, who never married, who raised no children, who were lovers, siblings, partners, and associates, bound together even in death. He, too, died on February 17th, exactly one year after her.</div><div><br></div><div> She, a woman of light in the shadows, full of secrets, a libertine actress and a devotee of the last hour, famous and unknown, loving and distant, she reigns.</div><div> He, a dark man in the light, mixing paradoxes, great jubilation and profound despair, playing with his fragile health, drinking a lot, he listens to her.</div><div><br></div><div> This show is an invitation to travel through the tumult of the Grand Siècle, the fragile balance, the gaiety and the demanding nature of this couple, allowing them to give us a final lesson in theatre, a lesson in life.</div><div><br></div><div> Arrangement Théâtre is a company founded in 2013 in Auxerre, dedicated to theatrical creation and making it accessible to all audiences. Committed to demanding writing and precise performance, it explores contemporary themes through its shows.</div><div> Her associate artist, Valérie Durin (author, actress and director) also develops numerous cultural activities: workshops, training, readings and interventions with diverse audiences (schools, universities, social and medical structures).</div><div> The company designs "all-terrain" creations and is designed to travel and conquer new audiences.</div>