Her Dom Juan was highly anticipated by the Parvis audience. Having already revisited Molière with her Trissotin ou les femmes savantes
, which successfully resonated with the text, freeing it from misogyny however anachronistic it may be, and having illuminated Mikhail Bulgakov's The Flight
with her own personal history, she returned to offer her reinterpretation of Dom Juan
. A difficult undertaking, because, like any monumental work, the line between respecting the text and what the staging actually offers is fraught. It's also difficult because we have in mind countless productions, some we've seen, others not, such as those by Louis Jouvet, Jean Vilar, Antoine Vitez, and Patrice Chéreau, and, closer to our time, Daniel Mesquich and Marcel Maréchal. Presenting a new Dom Juan
is both a guarantee of a full house and the risk of not finding the unique perspective that gives this new production its distinctive brilliance. It is therefore with equal parts attraction to the theatrical monument, curiosity to see what Macha Makeïeff will do with it, and a touch of skepticism after seeing so many directors paralyzed by the imposing presence of the play. The two and a half hours of the performance will take us on a journey between these different perspectives. Macha Makeïeff plays with the modernity of the text to make it resonate with our era and its social norms, both rigid and under attack. She uses modernity sparingly in her staging to shake up the monument just enough to make it vibrate anew. But the imposing presence of the play is too daunting for her to dare go further. And her Don Juan remains only halfway to what it promises. It's like a compromise between classicism and modernity that appeals to the widest audience. Without truly satisfying everyone.
Nous avons vu Dom JuanMolièreMacha Makeïeff - Le Parvis (Ibos)
Macha Makeïeff, a Don Juan between classicism and modernity
Macha Makeïeff plays with classical conventions and a touch of modernism to bring the monument to life and breathe new life into this new Don Juan. But the statue of the Commander remains too imposing.
Dom Juan mise en scène par Macha Makeïeff au Parvis / photo Stéphane Boularand (c)Bigorre.org
Par Stéphane Boularand / ©Bigorre.org / spectacle vu le Tuesday, December 17, 2024 / published on Monday, January 20, 2025
Artistes
- Molière (auteur)
- Macha Makeïeff (mise en scène, décor, costumes)
- Xavier Gallais (interprète)
- Vincent Winterhalter (interprète)
- Irina Solano (interprète)
- Pascal Ternisien (interprète)
- Jeanne-Marie Lévy (interprète)
- Xaverine Lefebvre (interprète)
- Khadija Kouyaté (interprète)
- Anthony Moudir (interprète)
- Jean Bellorini (lumière)
- Sébastien Trouvé (son)
- Cécile Kretschmar (maquillages et perruques)
- Guillaume Siard (mouvement)
- Félix Deschamps Mak (toile peinte)
