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Molière 2024 for Public Theatre & Molière 2024 for Director in a Public Theatre Production

 

The Homosexual or the Difficulty of Expressing Oneself

In Siberia, Irina suffers oppression at the hands of her adoptive ‘mother’ and then her piano teacher. Her vital and creative impulses are stifled by love, unfulfilled desires, jealousy and the pure and simple cruelty of these two possessive characters.

 

The Four Twins

In the depths of Alaska, two pairs of criminal twins, notorious for their wickedness, junkies and indestructible, wage a merciless and endless fratricidal struggle for gold bars, drugs and freedom.

 

Monstrous, hilarious and subversive, these two plays with their frigid atmosphere depict the fratricidal struggles of cruel and extravagant characters on the margins of society and the human race. Here, people change sex at will and die only to be resurrected in a post-apocalyptic, trashy and jubilant ballet.

 

Playing on the contrasts between kitsch and the sublime, cruelty and humour, the show is also a visual and musical work that tackles these two texts with power and nonchalance to reveal their political significance and ramshackle poetry.

Copi’s theatre, as disconcerting as ever, speaks to us of our conflictual relationship with the world and with others, with a keen sense of parody and comedy. In a joyful and devastating trance, it celebrates a theatre of catastrophe and cruelty, certainly, but above all a theatre of laughter and surprise. A theatre of the end of the impossible. A theatre where revolution could finally happen.

 

Premiere on 5 March 2019 at La Filature, Scène Nationale de Mulhouse

Time 1h45 min

On tour 2023-2024

Ages 15 and up.

 

By Copi

Directed by Louis Arene

Concept by Louis Arene and Lionel Lingelser

Dramaturgy by Kevin Keiss

 

With Louis Arene, Sophie Botte, Delphine Cottu, Olivia Dalric, Alexandre Éthève, Lionel Lingelser, and François Praud

Assistant director Maëliss Le Bricon

Costume design Christian Lacroix assisted by Jean-Philippe Pons and Karelle Durand

Set design and masks Louis Arene

Lighting design François Menou

Sound design Jean Thévenin assisted by Ludovic Enderlen

Hair and make-up design Véronique Soulier-Nguyen

Choreography Yotam Peled

Assistant set designer / stage manager / prop master Valentin Paul

Prop master / sound engineer Ludovic Enderlen

Assistant prop master Julien Antuori

Lighting engineer Victor Arancio

Dresser Audrey Walbott

Costume workshop manager Lucie Lecarpentier

Costume designers Tiphanie Arnaudeau, Hélène Boisgontier, Castille Schwartz

Directing intern Mo Dumond

Costume interns Marnie Langlois, Iris Deve

Special thanks to Alexandra Romaniew

COPI’s plays are represented by the DRAMA-Suzanne Sarquier agency (24 rue Feydeau, 75002 Paris).

 

Administration, production Clémence Huckel – Les Indépendances

Distribution Florence Bourgeon – Les Indépendances

Press Murielle Richard

 

Production Munstrum Théâtre

Co-productions La Filature, Scène Nationale de Mulhouse, Scène Nationale de Chateauvallon, CPPC / Théâtre de L’Aire Libre – Rennes, Espace 110 – Illzach

 

Support DRAC Grand Est, Région Grand Est, Département du Haut-Rhin / Collectivité européenne d’Alsace, Ville de Mulhouse, Agence Culturelle du Grand Est, ONDA, CENTQUATRE-Paris, Comédie-Française, Théâtre de Vanves, CRÉA, Ville de Kingersheim

Munstrum Théâtre is associated with La Filature, Mulhouse’s national theatre, as well as with projects run by Théâtre Public de Montreuil, Centre dramatique national, TJP CDN Strasbourg-Grand Est, and, from September 2023, Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon.

The company is accredited by the DRAC Grand Est – Ministry of Culture & the Grand Est Region. It is supported by the City of Mulhouse.