Christophe Montenez

Earning a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award in 1993, subsequently adapted for television and opera, "Angels in America" stages American society of the Reagan years, mixing intimate stories and political events, realism and the fantastical while following the dark narrative thread of the AIDS epidemic. This was the disease that, in 1986, ended the life of Roy Cohn, an unscrupulous lawyer who was a disciple of McCarthy, a homophobe, racist, “bully, coward and victim” as described on the Washington Memorial Quilt. Kushner makes him one of the twenty-three characters – played by eight actors – of his Gay Fantasia on National Themes divided into two parts: "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika". The setting is New York between 1985 and 1990. The Republicans are in power, the Chernobyl catastrophe is imminent, the collapse of the Berlin Wall is about to overturn cold war politics and HIV, still synonymous with certain death, is reduced to the definition of homosexual cancer.

서른 살, 아나이스의 인생은 오직 그녀 자신을 중심으로 숨가쁘게 돌아간다. 견고할 것만 같았던 아나이스의 세상은 그녀에게 반한 다니엘이 아닌, 그의 파트너 에밀리를 만나면서 흔들리기 시작하는데…

외제니에겐 독특한 재주가 있다: 죽은 자를 보고 그들의 말을 들을 수 있는 것. 19세기 말 가족이 그 비밀을 알게 되자, 아버지와 남동생은 외제니를 피티에살페트리에르 신경 전문 병원으로 보내고, 벗어날 가망이 없는 그녀의 운명은 병원의 간호사 준비에브의 운명과 얽히게 된다. 두 사람의 만남은 그들의 미래를 바꾸고, 샤르코 박사는 연례 "광녀들의 무도회"를 준비한다.

열정적인 사랑으로 하루하루를 보내던 파리의 행복한 연인 리사와 시몬. 시몬의 부주의로 벌어진 사고에 함께 도피를 계획하지만, 시몬이 약속 장소에 나타나지 않아 둘은 헤어지게 된다. 3년 후, 남편 레들러와 떠난 인도양의 여행지에서 우연히 리조트 직원으로 일하고 있는 시몬을 만난 리사는 걷잡을 수 없는 감정의 소용돌이에 휘청거리고. 한편, 레들러를 떠나지도, 시몬을 버리지도 못하는 리사를 찾아 제네바까지 쫓아온 시몬은 위험한 계획을 제안하고, 리사의 주변을 맴도는 시몬의 정체를 알아차리고도 레들러는 끝까지 침착함을 잃지 않는데…

헤어지고 38일째, 소니아에게 문자를 보냈다. 소니아의 답장은 여전히 오지 않고 눈치 없는 누나와 예비 매형이 나에게 결혼식 축사를 부탁한다. 다양한 방법으로 축사를 망치고 모두의 원망을 듣는 나의 미래가 눈앞에 보이는 것만 같아 두렵다. 그나저나 소니아는 왜 문자 답장이 없을까?

My mother googles the film hero of her youth: Helmut Berger. She is shocked: only an addicted shadow of the former icon seems to be left. She decides to halt the obvious catastrophic decline of the once “most handsome man in the world”. As a consequence, this one-time god of the screen is suddenly sitting on my mother’s sofa in Nordsehl in Lower Saxony. And he stays put - for several months. While he trustingly rolls out his whole life before us, the dividing lines between film team, world star and family intermingle. This is a film about ageing, rising and falling - and about the fact that it is sometimes possible to regain an element of dignity in life.

Written in 1760, Carlo Goldoni’s comedy has never been performed at the Comédie-Française, perhaps overshadowed by the famousHoliday Trilogy. A satire of the Venetian merchant class, embodied by narrow-minded, complaining and intolerant men whose mistrust of the fairer sex borders on the absurd, The Boors perfectly illustrates Goldoni’s theatre, a “theatre of life with a real content, characters observed in reality, and a natural expression.” Thus, a theatre in which the man Voltaire described as “nature’s son and painter” scrutinises his contemporaries, their relationships and their social behaviour. His work served to entertain while providing posterity with an acute testimony of the morals of his time. Indeed, Jean-Louis Benoit warns against reducing the author to a simple “photographer of reality”.

Le Petit-Maître corrigé is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. It was first performed on November 6, 1734, by the Comédie-Française in Paris. In this production Clément Hervieu-Léger makes the eighteenth century resonate with our era, all the more so given that the language is “simpler than in other Marivaux plays, while still as refined, precise and full of humour”. The story is that of a young Parisian whose parents have found a good match for him, a count’s daughter. But when he goes to visit her in her country home, the handsome boy – whose Parisian manners are far removed from the rules of decorum that reign in the provinces – cannot open his heart to his lovely intended. Stung, the latter decides to punish his arrogance while a former lover arrives to prevent the marriage. Between the alliance of master and manservant, and the complicity of mistress and maid, a romantic intrigue ensues full of light-hearted conspiracies and feverish emotions.

France, 1809. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up.

Two soldiers, Daniel and Jerome, flee a war we don’t see and we know nothing about. Jerome is badly injured, he will die, he says it, he knows it, he is afraid. Then Jerome confesses to Daniel his last will: he does not want to die a virgin, he wants to die loved…