Macha Makeïeff, who has directed La Criée, the Théâtre National de Marseille since 2011, is staging a Tartuffe with very contemporary resonances, which emphasizes the notion of hold and sectarian violence, always with this very strong plastic dimension which is at the heart of his work.
Is the title of the show Tartuffe-Théorème a nod to Pasolini’s film?
Macha Makeïeff: It’s more than a wink. Pasolini has shaped my imagination since I was a teenager. The more time passes, the more his vision of the world seems to me of an implacable lucidity. In his film Theorem (1968), it shows a moldy upper middle class that will implode on contact with an individual …
> Read Macha Makeïeff’s interview in Théâtral magazine n ° 90
Tartuffe-Theorem, by Molière, direction, costumes, sets Macha Makeïeff,
From 3 to 26/11 La Criée, Marseille
From 1 to 19/12 Bouffes du Nord, Paris,
On tour 2022: Nice, Angers, Villeurbanne, Toulon, Rennes, Créteil, Amiens, Caen
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