Théâtre National de Bretagne
Direction Arthur Nauzyciel
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running time 2h45
Created at TNB (2018)
On tour seasons 2021/22 and 2022/23
This is the story of a tragic love affair between a young bourgeois gentleman, Armand Duval and a courtesan, Marguerite Gautier, whose beauty holds him in thrall.
It is a story haunted by what was and what could have been. Arthur Nauzyciel stages Camille / La Dame aux camélias without a hint of pathos, indeed with severity, in an undefined space between Truth and Lie, Reality and Illusion. In so doing, he shines a light on the often hidden dimensions of the play such as the role of money in gender oppression and submission; the trivial quality of dialogue lurking behind much flowery, romantic speech; how, for its own entertainment, an entire social class – the bourgeoisie of the Second Empire in France – invented a diabolical machine for commercializing the female body and simultaneously promoting the moralization of sexual behavior. A story, which Dumas fils distills from his own complex novel, defending unfortunate wanton girls, while delivering harsh criticism of the dissolution of social mores.
Applying the full strength of his poetic and sensual directing, Arthur Nauzyciel opens up spaces to give voice to those who are missing or who have disappeared forever.
running time 2h45
Based on the novel and the play by
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
Adaptation
VALÉRIE MRÉJEN
ARTHUR NAUZYCIEL
PIERRE-ALAIN GIRAUD
Direction
ARTHUR NAUZYCIEL
Set design
RICCARDO HERNÁNDEZ
Lighting
SCOTT ZIELINSKI
Realisation, Image and Video editing
PIERRE-ALAIN GIRAUD
Sound
XAVIER JACQUOT
Costumes
JOSÉ LÉVY
Choreography
DAMIEN JALET
Sculpture
ALAIN BURKARTH
With
PIERRE BAUX
OCÉANE CAÏRATY
PASCAL CERVO
GUILLAUME COSTANZA
MARIE-SOPHIE FERDANE
MOUNIR MARGOUM
JOANA PREISS
HEDI ZADA
Voices
PIERRE BAUX
PASCAL CERVO
Production : Théâtre National de Bretagne. Coproduction : Les Gémeaux – Scène Nationale de Sceaux ; Théâtre National de Strasbourg ; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg ; Comédie de Reims ; Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes Pyrénées.