After La vieille qui lancait des couteaux (2017), actor Martin Petitguyot (26000 Couverts, Théâtre Group) returns with his company Amaranta for this impressive one-man show in the form of a real fake conference around the figure of Molière. Dusting off myths, shaking up statues, mussing up wigs… Between an analysis of power games and a full-scale denigration of the “fake earls” and cultural elites across the ages, between improvisations, impersonations, digressions and a remarkable work of historical democratisation, this ferocious and funny Molière sweeps us away with its energy and the power of its acting.
After La vieille qui lancait des couteaux (2017), actor Martin Petitguyot (26000 Couverts, Théâtre Group) returns with his company Amaranta for this impressive one-man show in the form of a real fake conference around the figure of Molière. Dusting off myths, shaking up statues, mussing up wigs… Between an analysis of power games and a full-scale denigration of the “fake earls” and cultural elites across the ages, between improvisations, impersonations, digressions and a remarkable work of historical democratisation, this ferocious and funny Molière sweeps us away with its energy and the power of its acting.
BIOGRAPHY
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Martin Petitguyot was born in the countryside of the Jura region in eastern France, and has kept true to opening up a culture and a performance style that gets up close and personal with people, rather than being confined to theatres. After whizzing through the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, then through cinema, for a long time with 26000 couverts, Burattini, Théâtre Group (La jurassienne de réparation) and La Femme à Barbe, this atypical actor and free spirit, rooted in street performance, created his own company, Amaranta, in 2010, for the fairground play La vieille qui lancait des couteaux. At the same time, he stage directed and performance directed for the Carabosse company, Didier Super, Fred Tousch… With this unfailing desire to reach out to new audiences, where theatre usually doesn’t go, he created this Molière (2021) for the Amaranta company, a theatrical reflection on theatre to opening up the legendary figure.
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