400 Years of Molière in Portugal!
Celebrating 400 years of Molière through his most recent stagings on the Portuguese theatre scene (2007-2022)
After having been received in the past as a literary and theatrical model, Molière ceased to be the classic par excellence and found, in the contemporary scene, new readings that do justice to his profile as author-actor and to his greatest ambition: to write for an audience who cared less about the art of dramatic composition in the respect of the rules than about the amusement and pleasure of comic and satirical invention.
Don Juan (2022)
Victims of censorship and cabals, D. João (1665) and Tartuffe (1669) are considered today as masterpieces of the universal theatrical repertoire.
Don Juan (2006)
Tartuffe (2021)
The Imaginary Sick Man (2012)
Molière defined a new aesthetic of the comic genre that, "painting men according to nature", aims to please and instruct, according to the Horacean principle of "utile dulci".
The Miser (2007)
The Bourgeois Gentleman (2020)
A critical and polemical observer of the society of his time, Molière promoted ridicule as an inexhaustible comic source.
Red Carpet (after The Affected Young Ladies, 2021)
The Versailles Impromptu (2016)
The Misanthrope-Martin Crimp adaptation (2022)
There is too much perversity in this century,
And I want to get out of the business of men.
I'll come out of a pit where vices triumph,
And seek on earth a remote place
Where to be a man of honour is free.
(Misanthrope)
Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança, Christine Zurbach (curator)
