Les Fourberies de Scapin
by Molière
directed by Denis Podalydès
Richelieu
Richelieu
Les Fourberies de Scapin
2025-09-20 00:00:00 2026-01-15 00:00:00
Available soonDenis Podalydès opened the 2017 season with Les Fourberies de Scapin, which has been continually performed and acclaimed ever since. This “troupe play, written not for the Court but for the people,” received acclaim when it premiered in 1671 at the Palais-Royal, which was undergoing some construction work. For this play, Molière wished to liberate himself of the constraints of comédies-ballets and machinery-driven comedies and come back to “pure theatre”, giving the director free rein.
The action is set in Naples, opening a door onto an imagined maritime world stretching towards the Orient. In a set suggesting a town port, two sons, two thwarted lovers, turn to the crafty Scapin, driven by a mad desire for revenge, to help them with their authoritarian fathers. The character is a Scaramouche double, as Molière was fascinated by the adventurous Italian actor: “To tell you the truth, there are very few things I cannot do, when I made up my mind” declares the buffoonish servant whose name, as Denis Podalydès points out, derives his fromthe Italian scappare, “to escape”, “to scamper off”. Scapin is beaten with a stick, but does some serious beating too. With ransom demands and paternal contradictions all around, he comes up with an avalanche of stratagems and other tricks Molière excels in depicting. After being performed over 260times in Paris, on tour, in five Chinese cities, and broadcast in cinemas, this joyous tale of children triumph over fathers is back at the Salle Richelieu.
This show premiered on September 20, 2017 at the Salle-Richelieu
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subtitlesFrench Sign LanguageAdapted FrenchFrenchEnglish
2.00 without intermission
Creative team
Direction: Denis Podalydès
Scenography: Éric Ruf
Costumes: Christian Lacroix
Lighting: Stéphanie Daniel
Sound: Bernard Valléry
Make-up: Véronique Soulier-Nguyen
Artistic and choreographic collaboration: Leslie Menu
Assistant direction: Alison Hornus
Assistant scenography: Dominique Schmitt
Distribution
the company
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Axel Auriant : Léandre, fils de Géronte et amant de Zerbinette
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Comédie-Française Academy actors
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