Shakespeare triumphs at the Molières of the theater
Shakespeare took the lion’s share… at the Molières, the annual French theater awards, where a version of the comedy “As you like it” won four statuettes on Monday.
Lena Breban receives the Molière for best directing in the private sector at the Folies-Bergère on May 30, 2022.
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The Shakespearian comedy, in a version by Léna Bréban, dominated the evening with four statuettes: best private theater show, best private theater director, best private theater actress (Barbara Schulz), best actress in a supporting role ( Ariane Mourier).
Another comedy, “Berlin Berlin”, about a couple during the Cold War who wants to flee and move to the West, won the Molière for comedy and the best actor in private theater (Maxime d’Aboville).
As for the musical “Les Producteurs”, in a staging by the gifted French theater artist Alexis Michalik, it won two Molières (best musical show and male revelation for Benoît Cauden).
The most coveted couple of directors of the moment, Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort, won two statuettes (visual creation and staging for a public theater show) for “Le Voyage de Gulliver”.
MeToo
This 33rd edition was also overtaken by the MeToo wave at the theater, with a rally in which the actress Adèle Haenel notably participated during the ceremony, at the call of a collective which denounces sexual and sexist violence in the middle. Inside the room, calls were made to move the lines.
Pauline Bureau, who won the Molière for living French-speaking author for her play on a women’s football team, recalled that “18% of public money goes to companies run by women”.
The ceremony coincided with the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth, but also with a drop in attendance in theaters.
“It is not by staying in front of our screens waiting for meal deliverers that we will overcome our anxieties… It is by laughing or crying, by sharing our emotions in a theater”, pleaded the president of this edition, the actress Isabelle Carré.
The Molières had been organized without an audience in 2020 then canceled last year because of the Covid.
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