I would like to express him, not as a biographer but as an actor, as one works on a role, making it an addition of one’s own truth and that of the character one dreams of. I try to hear his thoughts, to understand what drives him, and to see how, in his singularity, he makes me reflect on my own history, and more generally on the question of memory. A very subjective evocation, which will undoubtedly end up halfway between the two of us, and which, I hope, will speak to everyone.

I proceed by gathering up all sorts of materials, as if for a construction project: I read and I try to let myself go. I would like to summon Jean-Luc Lagarce, and his Malade imaginaire, as well as Musset dreaming of a performance of a Molière play he has just seen. Other intermediaries, figures and characters will also be invited.
I would also like the show to keep a memory of the different stages of its construction, like a piece of scenery whose reverse side reveals its frame and the counterweights that keep it standing upright, and that in this way the show embraces the joyful chaos that sometimes characterises creation, where an idea, an object, a text or a word leads to others.
Pierre Louis-Calixte

New production

Pierre Louis-Calixte, dans son spectacle, se livre à une interprétation libre et personnelle du personnage de Molière. Nombreux sont les auteurs et artistes à avoir investi Molière et son œuvre dans des formes romanesques (Boulgakov), dans des essais (Stendhal, Chateaubriand, Nerval, Hugo, Copeau, Anouilh, Jouvet), des œuvres poétiques (Musset) et surtout des pièces de théâtres. Les exemples sont ici innombrables : de L’Ombre de Molière de Brécourt (1674) à Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine, Armande et les autres, spectacle programmé de Julie Deliquet en 2022.

Ces interprétations, toujours libres, dressent le portrait de l’homme tel qu’on le projette dans la mémoire collective, à chaque époque : l’artiste modèle et le protecteur des arts au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Molière romantique à partir du XIXe siècle. À son tour, Pierre Louis-Calixte propose sa propre interprétation de Molière et évoque ce que son œuvre a construit dans son parcours d’artiste.