20 – 21 January

Le menteur

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.

Rue Genève 154,,
Switzerland
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Photo Credit: DR

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