2024-02-12 12:48:12
Published on February 12, 2024 at 1:48 p.m. / Modified on February 12, 2024 at 2:36 p.m.
Heaven, how close (hurt) love is to hatred! Racine demonstrates this with talent in Andromache, a tragedy from 1692 which sees four jilted lovers destroy each other endlessly. At the Comédie de Genève until February 14, Valentine’s Day (!), Stéphane Braunschweig further reinforces this feeling by placing his actors in a pool of blood. This is because, says the director of the Odéon in Paris, “it is not love that makes you mad, it is war”.
Thus, explains the director and scenographer of this version created last November, if each lover of tragedy is capable of the worst when he is rejected, it is not simply out of spite, but also because he is traumatized by the recent Trojan butchery. The option resonates with today’s conflicts and gives the characters a formidable intensity.
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