Description

Christian Schiaretti strives to make Molière's thought and language resonate in a fascinating and powerful confrontation.<div> After Molière's early farces and comedies, Les Femmes savantes revives the subject of female emancipation through knowledge, that of a masculine anxiety in the face of women who exceed the limits and become out of control.</div><div><br></div><div> A show full of subtleties and contradictions to underpin a complex and ambiguous text. Between Descartes and Gassendi, Cartesianism and libertine thought, Christian Schiaretti tackles what is troubling and unsettling in this project of female emancipation.</div><div><br></div><div> Without ever losing its humor, the show resonates with the tragic tone of the characters, like a promise of refinement and intelligence.</div>