The art of breaking up
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What do you get when you try to break up with your cabaret singing mistress the day of your marriage to a wealthy French heiress? Fernand de Bois D'Enghein is about to find out just that in this intricate web set in the glamorous 1950s, the height of the Parisian cabarets. Take a trip to the past, visit Paris and its famous music hall nightlife, and laugh the night away as this unexpected plot unfolds!
In this ever-popular farce by French playwright Georges Feydeau, Fernand and his mistress, despite their love for each other, realize that they must “find” other (wealthy) people in order to keep their frivolous, costly lives, and quick! Fernand has decided to get his life in order, meaning he must leave his beautiful lover, no earlier than the day he's marrying a wealthy French heiress.
What he's lacking is the artistic talent needed to orchestrate such a complicated breakup, and little does he know this story may even be more complicated than it appears! Is marriage simply a contract, do women prefer the quintessential 'bad boy'? Fernand is in for quite an absurd journey, as he tries to maneuver in his own web of white lies and finds himself caught up in it instead!
Spanish generals challenging a duel, a hopelessly romantic clerk locked outside in his underwear, what else will the day entail? The Art of Breaking Up will leave audiences in stitches as the complexities of this music hall histoire d'amour reveal themselves.
Cast : Catherine JACOB, Jean-Pierre MICHAËL, Christelle REBOUL, Noémie ELBAZ, Marc FAYET, Adèle BERNIER, Bernard MALAKA, Patrick CHAYRIGUÈS, Cédric COLAS, Stéphane COTTIN
Stage direction : Christophe LIDON
Music : Cyril GIROUX
Set : Christophe LIDON
Stage direction (assistant) : Natacha GARANGE
Lighting : Marie-Hélène PINON
Costumes : Chouchane ABELLO TCHERPACHIAN
Video : LEONARD
Choreography : Sophie TELLIER
Access plan Théâtre Montparnasse
How to get to the Théâtre Montparnasse
- Edgar Quinet, Gaîté, Montparnasse
- 28, 48, 58, 82, 86, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96
- Centre commercial Maine, Tour Montparnasse, Gare Montparnasse
- n° 14001 - 13 boulevard Edgar-Quinet
Comédiens au sommet de leur art.
Feydeau reste Feydeau et ce même avec une mise en scène moderne.
A ne pas rater.
Et même si tous les acteurs sont vraiment dans leur rôle, on ne peut manquer de s'enthousiasmer pour la gestuelle et le comique de Catherine Jacob.
Merci à Elle et à eux tous sans exception.