Jun 20Jul 06, 2025
Bérénice Librement inspiré de Jean Racine
Romeo Castellucci, Isabelle Huppert • Reprise
A TOTALLY FREE INTERPRETATION OF BÉRÉNICE. STUNNING!
Who is Bérénice? Very few figures from ancient times have inspired as many artists as the Jewish princess from the 1st Century of the Common Era. Her relationship with the Emperor Titus epitomizes the tension between the force of passionate love and reason of State. In 1670, Racine’s play achieved the status of a monument: five acts, all written in verse. Today Romeo Castellucci has taken on the work and focused on the loneliness of the broken-hearted woman abandoned by the man she loves, only to abandon him later herself. Castelluci, the master of visual drama, chose Isabelle Huppert, the master of actors, to take on the role, giving her a monologue of powerful solitude where the voice is then abandoned. Who could fail to succumb to the beauty of the voice articulating words concealed in the eminently human tale and to such a spectacular work of art?
Original idea & direction Romeo Castellucci
Based freely on the play by Jean Racine
Music Scott Gibbons
Costumes Iris Van Herpen
Assistant to the director Silvano Voltolina
A monologue with Isabelle Huppert
and with Cheikh Kébé, Giovanni Manzo
Production Societas, Cesena – Cité européenne du théâtre Domaine d’O. Montpellier. Coproduction Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – Comédie de Genève, Suisse – Ruhrtriennale, Allemagne – Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg – deSingel International Arts Center, Belgique – Festival Temporada Alta, Espagne – Teatro di Napoli, Teatro Nazionale, Onassis Stegi – Triennale Milano, Italie – National Taichung Theater, Taïwan – Holland Festival – LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Suisse – TAP - Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers – La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, scène nationale – Théâtre national de Bretagne – Yanghua Theatre, Chine. Avec le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
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