The Readers’ Bureau
Readings of contemporary authors
1ST CYCLE
Studio
Studio
The Readers’ Bureau
2019-12-13 20:30:00 2019-12-15 14:00:00
Discovering the texts of contemporary French or foreign authors, reading them and, in some cases, putting them in the spotlight, is one of the missions of the Comédie-Française.
Every season, the Comédie-Française puts contemporary French or non-French writing for theatre in the spotlight.
For this purpose, the Readers’ Bureau reads about four hundred authors a year. Chaired by Laurent Muhleisen, the Comédie-Française’s literary adviser, it is composed of actors from the Troupe, associate artists and external members who meet six times a year to select plays to be a given public reading by the Comédiens-Français.
Following these public readings, spectators who have attended all the presentations (the “committed spectators group”) vote for their favourite play.
This season, two plays distinguished by the Readers’ Bureau have been included on the Comédie-Française’s programme, Stefano Massini’s7 minutes, directed by Maëlle Poésy, and Lluïsa Cunillé’s Massacre, directed by Tommy Milliot.
Bureau members
Sylvia Bergé
Alain Lenglet
Christian Gonon
Julie Sicard
Pierre Louis-Calixte
Nicolas Lormeau
Nâzim Boudjenah
Yoann Gasiorowski
Séverine Daucourt
David Tuaillon
Agathe Sanjuan
STUDIO
1ST CYCLE 13 AND 14 DEC AT 8.30 PM, 15 DEC AT 2.00 PM
2ND CYCLE* 24 AND 25 APRIL AT 8.30 PM, 26 APRIL AT 2.00 PM
Vx-COLOMBIER
3RD CYCLE* 13 JUNE AT 3.00 PM, 14 AND 15 JUNE AT 8.30 PM
Admission free, booking required
* Bookings open in January 2020
