L'Hôtel du Libre-Échange

Director, actor and teacher, an insatiable reader and discoverer of texts, Stanislas Nordey has mainly directed contemporary authors since his debut in 1991. He has directed Pasolini, Gabily, Karge, Schwab, Lagarce, Mouawad, Crimp, Handke, Richter, and more recently Miano, Galea, Angot, NDiaye, whose Berlin mon garçon he presented at the Odéon in 2021. He has acted under the direction of Letailleur, Théron, Mouawad, Rambert, Vassiliev, Richter, Vigner, Meininger and sometimes in his own shows. Co-director with Valérie Lang of the Théâtre Gérard Philipe CDN de Saint-Denis from 1998 to 2001, he also directed the Théâtre national de Strasbourg and its School from 2014 to 2023, working with twenty-three artists.

After unsuccessfully trying his hand at acting, Georges Feydeau quickly found success as a playwright. At the turn of the century, the triumphs of L'Hôtel du Libre-Échange, Un fil à la patte, Le Dindon and La Dame de chez Maxim established him as the ‘king of vaudeville’. His last plays, On purge bébé and Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue, ferociously attacked the bourgeois family. In 1909, after a violent domestic dispute, he moved into a Parisian palace, where he stayed for ten years. In 1919, his children had him committed for mental problems caused by syphilis. Suffering from delirium and paranoia, he died two years later at the age of fifty-eight.