Le Misanthrope

Le Misanthrope brings together a formidable gallery of characters in permanent performance, failed poets, consummate prudes, frenzied courtiers who, one and all, clamor for a moment of attention. It is to them that Alceste strives to say everything he thinks, in a world where falsehood seems to be the rule. "What will be the consequences of his words in friendship, love and society? Molière's work continues to surprise us with its fascinating timelessness. The human passions it unleashes never cease to offer us a cruel mirror of our own condition. Placing the action in a space conceived as an illusion machine, Simon Delétang admirably succeeds in revealing all that is at stake.