On giugno - 9 - 2014
By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
France boasts a long and rich experience in the theatre. La Comédie-Française, and its best-known playwright, Molière, have conquered the hearts of audiences and performers all over the globe. No wonder the French have a natural talent when it comes to the stage, and this trait is blatant in the New York based Theatre Collective, Diffractions.
The company was created by French actors and directors living between Paris and New York City, with the goal of producing plays based on cultural exchanges between French-speaking countries and the US, by presenting classic plays in French as well as contemporary Francophone authors in English on the NY scene.
Don’t miss their upcoming shows:
Show 1: “La Nuit de Valognes” by E-E Schmitt.
June 11th & 13th at 8pm
June 14th at 3pm
At The 4th Street Theatre
(79 East 4th Street, New York)
Directed by Roxane Revon
Produced by Brice Baillié
Fight Choreographer: Neyssan Falahi
Starring : Brice Baillié, Severine Casati, Delphine Germano, Jessica Gourdon, Brian Levy, Marie Lintzer, Fanny Schaus, Céline Ribrault, Virginie Truchot, Julie Vallat.
Assistant Director: Delphine Houdot
Set Designer/Stage Manager: Aurélie Desmas
Don Juan’s conquests and victims decide to organise his trial and to force him to get married with one of them. But during the trial, Sganarelle, Don Juan’s valet, reveals his master’s past that suddenly seems to explain his rude behaviour with women…
Show 2: “Don Juan et ses femmes”
by Molière, Dumas, Rostand, Apollinaire, Camus, Schmitt…
June 12th & 14th at 8pm
June 15th at 3pm
At The 4th Street Theatre
(79 East 4th Street, New York)
Directed and adaptation by Vanessa Da Gema
Produced by Brice Baillié
Starring : Diane Bizzarro, Marie Dumont-Mangin, Lucie Dupas, Pierre Quémard, Teymouraz Gorjestani, Brice Baillié.
Based on the extracts of France’s most famous works on Don Juan, this theatre play unites for the first time the different adventures of several Dons Juans imagined in French literature. Don Juan’s love affair with three women from his childhood to his middle age is narrated by a housemaid through three different centuries which reflect women’s evolution through time…
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