Special program 400 years of Molière! What role internationally?

Published on : 20/01/2022 – 17:04Modified : 20/01/2022 – 17:07

This year, Molière is 400 years old! An opportunity to celebrate with great fanfare one of the best-known and most performed playwrights.

From Tartuffe to Imaginary illness, what remains of Molière’s theatre? How to explain its timelessness? What role beyond borders? Was it an instrument of colonization?

Program in partnership with the magazine Le Point – Hors-séries.

With :

-Laurence Moreau,journalist, editor-in-chief of Le Point “Special Edition” the last of which: Molière, the secrets of a genius

and

– Martial Poirson, professor of Cultural History, Literature, contributor to Le Point and author of «Moliere. The factory of a national glory”, Editions du Seuil. Curator of the exhibition “Molière, the factory of a national glory. » at Versailles, an exhibition that can be seen until April 17.