La Ménagerie de verre

duration 2h10

May 19 - June 9 2021

Odéon 6^e

with Isabelle Huppert, Justine Bachelet, Cyril Gueï, Antoine Reinartz

Twenty years later, a poet confides about his long-lost youth. In his memory, though he longs to break free, Tom is still sharing a small flat with his mother – an self-proclaimed Southern belle of yore who insists on living up to her principles – and his sister, a fragile young woman who seems quite unable to overcome her shyness, if not worse. But everything, surely, is about to change, for tonight, a certain « gentleman caller » is expected for dinner… Isabelle Huppert is back in the Odéon, her theatre of choice, in Tennessee William’s first major play. Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (César 2018 for Best Young Actor) plays Tom. A stellar cast, directed by Ivo van Hove.

duration 2h10

From Tuesday to Saturday at 6 P.M., Sunday at 3 P.M.

Breaks on May 1st and 2nd

Program of the show

mise en scène Ivo van Hove
traduction française Isabelle Famchon
dramaturgie Koen Tachelet
scénographie, lumière Jan Versweyveld
costumes An D’Huys
son et musique Georges Dhauw

production Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

coproduction La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale, Onassis Stegi – Athènes, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Thalia Theater – Hambourg, deSingel – Anvers, Barbican – Londres

avec le soutien de LVMH

La Ménagerie de Verre est présentée en vertu d’un accord exceptionnel avec The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
La pièce est gérée en Europe francophone par Marie-Cécile Renauld, MCR Agence Littéraire en accord avec Casarotto Ramsay Ltd.

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Since his debut in Belgium in the 1980s, Ivo van Hove, director of the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, has established himself as one of the most important directors on the European stage. His repertoire ranges from the classics to modern texts and film scripts.

In 2008, his Roman Tragedies based on Shakespeare, transposed into a contemporary world of power, met with the enthusiasm of French audiences. He subsequently presented Le Misanthrope at the Ateliers Berthier in 2012, with the Schaubühne company, Arthur Miller's Vu du pont (in 2015 and 2017), and Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead (2016). He directed Juliette Binoche in Antigone in 2015, then directed Les Damnés after Visconti at the Comédie-Française in 2016, Électre/Oreste in 2019, and Tartuffe ou l'hypocrite in 2022, while his Don Giovanni (created in 2019 at Garnier) was revived at the Opéra Bastille.

La Ménagerie de verre

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