Staged by Juan Crespillo and performed by Compagnie le Phénix, this adaptation by and starring Anne Martinet dramatizes Stefan Zweig’s novella about a chance, obsessive encounter. Madame C, an aristocratic widow, is swept into a twenty-four-hour passion that unsettles her memory and loosens long-held constraints. Sparse staging and focused acting foreground inner turmoil, while the production explores desire, guilt and liberation with tense intimacy, drawing audiences into a fragile psychological world.
In French.
