Luc Bondy

Luc Bondy / Marivaux

La Seconde Surprise de l’amour

Archive 2008
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
novembernov 25 - december – dec 25
La Seconde Surprise de l’amour
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



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…”

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