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Consolation by Theatre Volière

Posted by Admin in Blog, London, Theatre

The Bridewell Theatre is hosting an Anglo-French summer season in the heart of London. Strasbourg-based touring company Theatre Voliere -whose Poilu and Tommy received a Best show nomination from the Off West End Awards in 2014- are back in town from August 12th to September 4th with two bilingual shows! In the evenings, they will perform their new show Consolation: a tragicomedy set in modern day Southern France. Written by Mick Wood, directed by Natasha Wood and designed byRūta Irbīte. The play explores the relationship between a young Frenchman, who plays a Cathar knight at the local Visitor’s Centre, and a middle-aged Englishwoman…read more

Mar.11

Tartuffe

Posted by Admin in Blog, Humorous, Literature, London, Practice, Theatre

If you are looking to practice your French you could head to the French Institute and watch an original new staging of a classical French play. The French Institute’s theatre season En Scène! presents Molière’s Tartuffe in a new adaptation by actor Guillaume Baillart. Molière’s most performed play has the double title of Tartuffe or the Impostor, it satirises self-interested hypocrisy and the power some of us hand over to gurus. Tartuffe is the name of the main character and the play made such an impression when it was first performed in 1664 that the term was quick to pass into everyday language. ‘Tartuffe’ is…read more