Le Rêve et la plainte, a new creation by Nicole Genovese, directed by Claude Vanessa, can be seen at the Théâtre de la Tempête from May 2, 2025. On stage, a small bamboo castelet planted in the middle of the stage represents a suspended set, somewhere between Versailles and a miniature theater stranded on an ice floe. The action takes place at the Petit Trianon, just before the French Revolution, in an atmosphere of bittersweet end of reign.
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In Le Rêve et la plainte, Louis XVI is said to have given Marie-Antoinette a brand-new kitchen, surrounded by their nearest and dearest, the Princesse de Lamballe, the Comte d'Artois, and two anachronistic characters named Fred and Déborah. Together, they would chat, sing and tease each other with a deliberately absurd lightness. Marie-Antoinette takes on an Ariège accent and sings Amel Bent, while Louis XVI stares melancholically into the future. The dialogues, served up by a troupe of performers with marked comic accents, would stage anguish in frivolous garb, between drollery, nostalgia and suspended silence.
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Le Rêve et la plainte (The Dream and the Complaint ) could appeal to an audience with a taste for offbeat humor and visual theater, but also for historical detour that are both tender and grating. The mix of registers and eras, between period costumes and contemporary songs, would offer a burlesque playground where we could talk about collapse with grace. On the other hand, this type of theater might be less suited to those seeking a linear narrative or classic historical reconstruction.
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Dates and Opening Time
From May 2, 2025 to May 25, 2025
Location
Théâtre de La tempete
Route du champ de Manoeuvre
75012 Paris 12
Prices
€8 - €24
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