Directed by Julia Vidit, this bracing staging revisits Pierre Corneille’s Le Menteur as a baroque comedy where appearances rule. Dramaturge Guillaume Cayet shapes a fluid text that slips between the seventeenth century and today, while a versatile ensemble, including Joris Avodo, Marion Duphil, Mégane Ferrat and Adil Laboudi, performs a kaleidoscope of duplicity, desire and social manners. A mirrored set amplifies the play’s games of deception and theatricality.
In French.
