A Comédie-Française tour
- from: 01.11.2008
- to: 28.02.2009
- In: In 10 new EU countries
Two plays in one: les Précieuses Ridicules (Molière) and la Festa (S. Scimone)
agenda
November 2008
BULGARIA
Sofia, National Theatre of Ivan Vazov
RUMANIA
Bucharest, Odeon Theatre
December 2008
POLAND
Gdansk, Wybrzeze Theatre
Warsaw, Narodowy Theatre
SLOVAKIA
Bratislava, National Theatre
HUNGARY
Budapest, National Theatre
January 2009
SLOVENIA
Ljubljana, National Theatre
CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague, National Theatre
LITHUANIA
Vilnius, National Dramatic Theatre
February 2009
LATVIA
Riga, National Theatre
ESTONIA
Tallinn, Dramatic Theatre
Practical
On tour in 10 countries (see the planned schedule)
The Comédie-Française is organising a major tour through ten Eastern European countries, member states which recently joined the European Union: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania.
The tour programme consists of two plays presented in one and the same show:
- Molière's Les Précieuses Ridicules, directed by Dan Jemmett (English)
- The Festa de Spiro Scimone (Italian), directed by Galin Stoev (Bulgarian).
This season, these two productions are being performed at the théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris.
This Comédie-Française tour is "the" major event of the European cultural season to take place outside France.
This Comédie-Française production is not simply a Franco-French production, but rather a creation presented by performers from several of these European countries.
The defining moment for this major European tour will be the performances given in Prague on 14th and 15th January 2009 at the Estates Theatre at the time when the French presidency of the Council of the European Union gives way to the Czech presidency.
"France holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2008, and it is an opportunity for us to show the different kinds of entertainment that we schedule at the Comédie-Française. The idea is to combine two farces, one classical and the other contemporary, one French, the other Italian, one directed by an Englishman, Dan Jemmett, and the other by a Bulgarian, Galin Stoev."
Muriel Mayette, General Manager of the Comédie-Française
- Updated: 30.12.2008
