Theatre : Célimène et le Cardinal

Type: Event
Location: 72, Lodi Estate
City: New Delhi
Date: Wed, 2012/12/05 – 7:00pm
Price: Free Entry.

Alliance Française de Delhi

and Institut française en Inde

present

Célimène et le Cardinal

Directed by Jacques Rampal
Wednesday, 5th December 2012, 7pm
at
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzykwuLI0g0&feature=relmfu

“Cardinal! Wasn’t it ideal destiny for an irascible authoritarian and solitary? Because here is the Molière’s Misanthrope in a very comfortable situation of a man who‘s separated from the world but holding it in his iron fist: in the seventeenth century, the power of a prelate is considerable.

Twenty years later, he goes to his lover, who is now in her forties, still attractive but married and perfectly happy with her four children. But what brings him now to this mother of the family without a story? To save her! He says that for months, he’s haunted by a nightmare and he has come with a message of God, according to which Célimène has a mortal danger… Therefore, he decides to confess a woman, too happy to be honest.

This “confession”, alternately funny and erotic, will turn fast in the verbal sparring match between an almost fundamentalist monk and a loose, a figurehead of seventeenth century which strides up. But from this conflict, only love will win, because even twenty years later, the lovers of Molière still love each other, and forever.”

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