Luc Bondy
Luc Bondy / Marivaux
La Seconde Surprise de l’amour
© © Ruth Walz ©
by Marivaux
Direction, Luc Bondy
Dramaturgy, Dieter Sturm
Artistic collaborator, Geoffrey Layton
Set design and lighting, Karl-Ernst Herrmann
Sound, André Serré
Costumes, Moidele Bickel
Make-up, hair, Cécile Kretschmar
Assistant director, Sophie Lecarpentier
With Pascal Bongard, Audrey Bonnet, Roger Jendly, Roch Leibovici, Micha Lescot, Marie Vialle
Co-produced by the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne E.T.E
Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers
Wiener Festwochen ; Ruhr triennale ; MC2 : Grenoble-Scène nationale, Nouveau Theâtre d’Angers, Centre dramatique national des Pays de Loire ; Théâtre de Caen ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of the Leenaards Foundation, Monsieur Martin Schlaff, the Landys & Gyr Foundation
This play was created in 2007 at the Théatre Vidy in Lausanne, then reprised in November at the Théatre Nanterre-Amandiers
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…”
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