2023-06-10 12:21:10
The Théâtre de Carouge (GE) unveiled its programming for the 2023-2024 season on Saturday. Thirteen shows are on the bill, including an adaptation of Ettore Scola’s film “A Special Day” in which French actress Laetitia Casta will play the main role.
Directed by Lilo Baur, the play tells the story of two solitudes: that of the “housekeeper”, wife and good mother, Antonietta, played by Laetitia Casta, and radio columnist Gabriele, a cultivated and homosexual man, played by Franco-Moroccan actor Roschdy Zem.
The distribution asked for special reflection with Lilo Baur when designing the show since “in the film, it was Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni who gave each other the reply”, underlined Jean Liermier, director of the Théâtre de Carouge. He presented the new season on Saturday at the end of the morning in front of a full house.
Antonietta and Gabriele meet in the particular context of a day under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and marked by Adolf Hitler’s visit to Rome in 1938. From there, their lives will be turned upside down. To see from October 3 to 22. A special screening of Ettore Scola’s film is also scheduled for October 5 at Cinéma Bio, in the presence of playwright Valérie Six, co-producer of the show.
Adapted by Nicolas Bouvier
Another highlight of this season, which “jumps with life”, will be the adaptation on stage of the novel “L’Usage du Monde” by the Geneva writer Nicolas Bouvier. This trip to unknown lands aboard a Fiat Topolino, which unfolds like an initiatory quest, is the story of the Franco-Geneva actor Samuel Labarthe.
The play directed by Catherine Schaub will run from November 29 to January 26. “It was a fair return to the roots,” enthused Jean Liermier, recalling the Carouge years of the writer with his friend, the illustrator Poussin.
In the background, on the screen, the public discovered an astonishing mobile with a tire from the famous car, an accordion and a teapot – each piece of this season has its mobile-machine, made up of elements from the shows and which holds poster place.
Give meaning to existence
From March 1 to 16, the public of the Carouge institution will also be able to discover a “Soviet vaudeville”. A piece “with wacky humor, which allows you to resist”, noted Jean Liermier. Written in 1928, banned even before being played by the Stalinist authorities in 1932, “Le Suicidé” is a fiercely comic play with a very contemporary resonance.
For its director, Jean Bellorini, it depicts the need to give meaning to one’s existence in a world where reality gives way to nightmare.
The season of the Carouge institution, which gives pride of place to creations, will end with a proposal by Jean Liermier entitled “Zoo Story”. It highlights an amazing storyteller, original, funny and disturbing at the same time. It will be regarding a dog, a concierge, honor and territory.
The play will travel through French-speaking Switzerland aboard the theater truck, a project initiated in 2016 to get closer to its spectators.
Reading time
For the first time this year, the theater of the Sardinian city offers to spend a moment of reading with a personality during the second half of November. For this first edition, the Swiss actress Yvette Théraulaz will present her reading of Alice Rivaz.
The 135 shows of the season which is ending attracted 50,819 spectators, i.e. an attendance rate of 98.68% – “this is one percent less than the previous season, but, in reality, as there were no more seats, we welcomed 7,441 more spectators!”, rejoiced Jean Liermier, with his cheeky cheeks and the humor that characterizes him.
After two seasons marked by the pandemic, as well as the renovation of the building of the Carouge institution, temporarily moved to an ephemeral room called La Cuisine and sold to the city of Nice, “we have found a financial balance”.
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