Luc Bondy

Luc Bondy / Marivaux

La Seconde surprise de l’amour

Archive 2007

Theatre

1/5

La Seconde Surprise de l’amour
by Marivaux
Directed by Luc Bondy
Dramaturgy: Dieter Sturm
Artistic collaborator: Jeff Layton
Set design, lights : Karl-Ernst Hermann
Sound, André Serré
Costumes Design, Moidele Bickel
Make-up, Hair-dressing, Cécile Kretschmar
Stage Assistant, Sophie Lecarpentier
Set design, lights Assistants, Claudia Jenatsch, Jean-Luc Chanonat
Costume collaboration , Amélie Haas
TechnicalCoordination, Eric Proust
With Pascal Bongard, Audrey Bonnet, Clotilde Hesme, Roger Jendly, Roch Leibovici, Micha Lescot
Co-produced by the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne; Nanterre Amandiers; MC2 Grenoble-Scène nationale, Wiener Festwochen; Ruhr triennale; Nouveau Théâtre d'Angers, centre dramatique national des Pays de Loire,and the Théâtre de Caen
Executive producer: Compagnie des Petites Heures, the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Co-presented by the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and the Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Fondation Leenaards and Martin Schlaff
With additional support from Adami

Luc Bondy is a master in the art of deconstructing and reinventing the classics, in particular in bringing out the music in Marivaux’s writing – which he is staging here for the second time. This comedy portrays a beautiful and inconsolable widow and a betrayed and tearful lover. After long suppressing their mutual attraction, they ﬁnally marry “in a powerful accord which joins them together in a shared life full of ritual…”