by Paul Claudel
staged and directed by Éric Ruf
Richelieu
Richelieu
Le Soulier de satin
2024-12-21 00:00:00 2025-04-13 00:00:00
TicketsThe mere mention of some titles is enough to elicit a combination of fascination, excitement, and dread.
As a seminal literary, theatre, and audience-oriented work, Le Soulier de Satin, written from 1918 to 1923, only premiered at the Comédie-Française in 1943 in a production directed by Jean-Louis Barrault, who went through immense trouble and faced many risks to be granted Claudel’s authorisation and perform the play in German-occupied France.
This “love drama”, which takes place over the course of 20 years laid out in four days, tells the story of Rodrigo and Prouhèze, the wife of governor Don Pélage, in the era of conquistadors and explorations of vaguely-known seas. “We eagerly and humbly tackled this era, said Éric Ruf, exploring the secret hidden by the poet within these four Days, or the way Claudel inscribed his illicit relationships into skilful yet personal writing.” The director is used to dealing with Claudel’s writing style, in all its musicality and brilliance, and considers it to be extremely sensible. It is deployed within a set designed to highlight the age-old connexion between the apparatus used in theatre and sailing, using the play’s foreword as a starting point: “Everything must seem temporary, in progress, sloppy, incoherent, enthusiastically improvised, and the result must include some successful parts, if possible, to avoid being tedious even in agitation. Order is the delight of sound minds, and mess is imagination’s treat.” For this 7-hour-long production, directed with Éric Ruf’s 2012 Peer Gynt in mind, joy is the thread that ties this humongous group play together.
NEW PRODUCTION
Special ticket prices,
Exceptionally at 3 P.M. – 6:30 P.M. (1 intermission), break, 8 P.M. – 11:30 P.M. (1 intermission)
IN CINEMAS
SPRING 25
ON THE RADIO
FRANCE CULTURE
Broadcast during the season
Stage version, direction and scenography: Éric Ruf
Costumes: Christian Lacroix
Lighting: Bertrand Couderc
Musical direction: Vincent Leterme
Choreographic work: Glysleïn Lefever
Artistic collaboration: Léonidas Strapatsakis
Assistant director: Alison Hornus
Costume assistant: Jean Philippe Pons
and the Académie de la Comédie-Française
Assistant director: Aristeo Tordesillas
Assistant to the scenography: Anaïs Levieil
Costume assistant: Aurélia Bonaque Ferrat
Sound assistant: Samuel Robineau
Sergent napolitain, le Capitaine, Don Léopold Auguste et le Japonais Daibutsu
See biographyle Roi d’Espagne (1re et 2e journée), la Lune, la Logeuse et le Chambellan
See biographyand the Comédie-Française Academy actors and actresses,
and musicians
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Nous vous rappelons également qu’un seul sac (de type sac à main, petit sac à dos) par personne est admis dans l’enceinte des trois théâtres de la Comédie-Française. Tout spectateur se présentant muni d’autres sacs (sac de courses, bagage) ou objets encombrants, se verra interdire l’entrée des bâtiments.