Luc Bondy

Luc Bondy / Marivaux

La Seconde Surprise de l’amour

Archive 2008
Theatre
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…”