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A magnificent text brought to life by two talented actors. Célimène and Alceste, 20 years later, with all their sharpness and the love they refuse to acknowledge.<div> Wasn't being a cardinal the ideal destiny for a melancholic, authoritarian, and solitary man? For here was Alceste in the very comfortable position of a man cut off from the world, yet holding that world in his iron grip: in the 18th century, a prelate's power was considerable. Twenty years later, he invites himself to the home of his former lover to find a pretty woman in her forties who, far from the Court she "betrayed" by marrying a bourgeois, seems perfectly happy with her four children. But what has Mazarin's equal brought to this unassuming mother? To save her!</div><div> For months he claims to have been haunted by a "terrifying" dream, which he mistook for a message from heaven, in which Célimène is in mortal danger... Convinced he is God's ambassador to mankind, Alceste decides to hear the confession of this lost sheep, too happy to be honest. This "confession," by turns comical, moving, and... erotic, quickly devolves into a verbal duel between a Jansenist firmly rooted in his time and a libertine before her time, a leading figure, according to Alceste, of a libertine 18th century. Only Love will emerge victorious, since 20 years later, Molière's lovers are still in love. And forever.</div><div><br></div>