Le Mariage forcé

"I love play, visits, assemblies, presents, and walks; in a word, all things of pleasure: and you must be delighted to have a wife of my mood," Dorimène declares to the man who has proposed to her.

Le Mariage forcé paints a portrait of a shameless coquette, one of great modernity: far from the innocence of Agnès in L'École des femmes, Dorimène sees her alliance with Sganarelle as the promise of a wealthy life led with complete independence, especially when it comes to marital relations. The farce focuses on this man of advanced years, a naïve bourgeois disconcerted by the libertarian discourse of the woman he thought he dominated, who consults philosophers, bohemians and magicians in haste and to no avail, in order to be reassured about his nuptials, celebrated that very evening.
A resident of the Troupe for 4 years, Louis Arene left in 2016 to devote himself to his company, Munstrum Théâtre. A noted masked playwright, he takes on Molière's farce with a highly topical feminist slant; the play inverts the usual data of a patriarchal society by portraying a predatory young bride, determined to do away with male domination. He turns it into an experiment in which notions of the couple and love relationships are cruelly, but joyously, mishandled, giving it a remarkable dreamlike, painterly dimension.