In the historical setting of Port-Royal, in a brutal century, how can people who love the absolute and the truth fall in love? Laurence Plazenet's writing is flamboyant, virtuoso and poetic.
Fanny Ardant -Mme de Clermont- captures all the tremors of passion, between narration and embodiment. She plays with its contradictions with a sensitivity that reveals its fragility and power. Unity of time and place: an interior, one night, in semi-darkness, to let the words resound.
It is in this pious, demanding and radiant house, where they made a commitment to intelligence and the education of girls, and where Mme de Clermont was brought up, that M de la Tour, broken and wounded in battle, is welcomed. Fanny Ardant has chosen to return to the stage to talk about love. Sublime love, unique love, the only true love. Passion, pain and the divine intertwine to take a woman to the brink.
By Laurence Plazenet, based on the novel "La blessure et la soif" by Laurence Plazenet, published by Éditions Gallimard.
With Fanny Ardant
Directed by Catherine Schaub,
Set design: Jean Haas,
Costume: Michel Dussarrat,
Lighting: César Godefroy,
Music: Armand Amar,
Make-up: Mina Matsumura,
Hair: Jean-Jacques Puchu-Lapeyrade
Photo credits: Émile Brouchon
Fanny Ardant -Mme de Clermont- captures all the tremors of passion, between narration and embodiment. She plays with its contradictions with a sensitivity that reveals its fragility and power. Unity of time and place: an interior, one night, in semi-darkness, to let the words resound.
It is in this pious, demanding and radiant house, where they made a commitment to intelligence and the education of girls, and where Mme de Clermont was brought up, that M de la Tour, broken and wounded in battle, is welcomed. Fanny Ardant has chosen to return to the stage to talk about love. Sublime love, unique love, the only true love. Passion, pain and the divine intertwine to take a woman to the brink.
By Laurence Plazenet, based on the novel "La blessure et la soif" by Laurence Plazenet, published by Éditions Gallimard.
With Fanny Ardant
Directed by Catherine Schaub,
Set design: Jean Haas,
Costume: Michel Dussarrat,
Lighting: César Godefroy,
Music: Armand Amar,
Make-up: Mina Matsumura,
Hair: Jean-Jacques Puchu-Lapeyrade
Photo credits: Émile Brouchon
