The skin of Chagrin Balzac
19h30
Castle courtyard
Duration: 1h20
La Peau de Chagrin is a beautiful story, that of a delayed suicide: the story of a life.
It is the first great novel that Honoré signs with his name: Balzac. He puts everything he is then, his personal history, his many failures and his last strengths into it. Because he is not yet the author of the Human Comedy: for the moment, for him, not much has worked.
The myth of Faust does not serve him to find the meaning of life, but to take its measure. How much life do we have? And if we were aware of it, what would we do with it? From this shrinking skin Balzac draws the most romantic novel. On stage, four actors prepare for you a macabre dance, a bonfire, a disturbing banquet where this Peau de Chagrin would reduce without losing anything of its taste.
The New Popular Theatre
Le Nouveau Théâtre Populaire is a collective, which created in 2009, an open-air theatre festival in Fontaine-Guérin (49). The festival is growing, until it alternates between six shows per edition. It takes place every summer in August.
The company has also grown over the years. Today, it has twenty members: Pauline Bolcatto, Valentin Boraud, Julien Campani, Philippe Canalès, Baptiste Chabauty, Léo Cohen-Paperman, Thomas Chrétien, Emilien Diard-Detœuf, Clovis Fouin, Frédéric Jessua, Joseph Fourez, Sophie Guibard, Elsa Grzeszczak, Lazare Herson- Macarel, Lola Lucas, Morgane Nairaud, Antoine Philippot, Julien Romelard, Claire Sermonne and Sacha Todorov.
The troupe operates democratically, all decisions are made collectively, but each show has a director who retains his or her artistic uniqueness. Without wishing to assert dogma, the New Popular Theatre recognizes itself in Jean Vilar’s values: great texts, low prices, decentralization.
The festival has already featured Andersen, Brecht, Büchner, Claudel, Corneille, Feydeau, Fosse, Hugo, Maeterlinck, Molière, Novarina, Perrault, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Singer, Sophocles, Tchekhov, Winsor Mc Cay and two collective creations on the 5th Republic and the 1st World War. In 2018, for the 10th edition, the festival will be dedicated to La Comédie humaine after Balzac.
Subsidized by the Entente-Vallée (Beaufort-en-Anjou, Les Bois d’Anjou, Mazé-Milon, La Ménitré), the Ministère de la Culture-drac Pays-de-la- Loire and the Région Pays-de-la-Loire. With the support of the Théâtre National Populaire, the Quai-CDN d’Angers, and the communes of Beaufort-en-Anjou, Loire-Authion, Baugé-en-Anjou.
Reservations from July 23rd by phone, from 3pm to 6pm: 02 53 20 32 99, Monday to Saturday and Sunday August 19th and 26th and on www.festivalntp.com
Choice of rates: 5€, 10€ or 15€. In an ideal of cultural democratization, we propose a pricing system where everyone can choose the price of their place without having to justify their situation