Stars like Isabelle Huppert, Vanessa Paradis and Laetitia Casta are among the nominees for the 33rd Molières ceremony, which will be held on May 30 at the Folies Bergère in Paris. Renamed “400th Molières ceremony” in tribute to the playwright whose 400th birthday is celebrated this year, the evening will be hosted by comedian Alex Vizorek, at 9:00 p.m. on France 3.
Isabelle Huppert is nominated in the category “actress in a public theater show”, for her performance in “La Cerisaie” by Chekhov in a staging by Tiago Rodrigues, who opened the Avignon Festival 2021.
In the private theater, Vanessa Paradis, who played the lead role in Samuel Benchetrit’s “Maman”, faces a heavyweight in the theater, Catherine Hiegel, impressive in the dark play “Before the retirement” by Thomas Bernhard, set in scene by Alain Françon. As for Laetitia Casta, highly acclaimed for her incarnation of the pianist Clara Haskil, she was nominated for the Molière for female revelation.
Other stars are also named as Pierre Arditi in “Fallait pas le dire!” » by Salomé Lelouch (private theatre), while, in the public, Jacques Weber is named among others for his interpretation of « King Lear » by Shakespeare.
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After two years marked by long months of theater closures due to the pandemic, the plays that have won the most nominations are mostly tinged with humor. “Les Gros skatent bien – cardboard cabaret”, incredible adventures written and directed by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan, obtained five nominations, as well as “As you like it”, Shakespeare’s comedy directed by Lena Breban. “Les Producteurs” by Mel Brooks, in a staging by the gifted French theater artist Alexis Michalik, won four, as did “Berlin, Berlin”, a comedy about a couple who want to run away and move to the West .
“Le Voyage de Gulliver”, directed by Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort, a couple who often put on successful plays, also won four nominations, as did “La Course des Géants” by Mélody Mourey, set in the midst of the Cold War. Pauline Bureau is nominated twice for the Molière du Théâtre public and that of the living French-speaking author for her show “Féminines” on the first French women’s football team, world champion in 1978
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“Before Retirement” is also named four times, while “The Lion King” is in the running for musical spectacle and visual creation. As for the legendary Ariane Mnouchkine, she is among the nominees for the Molière for director in the public theater, for her play “L’Ile d’Or”.
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