Théâtre Montansier - La Séparation

Entertainment/recreation

Alain Françon directs the only play by Claude Simon, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Set in two vast toilet cubicles separated by a thin partition, the play features two couples in crisis. With hilarious humor, the author plunges us into the heart of a tragi-comedy of the highest order. A sort of boulevard written by a Nobel Prize winner. On one side, the parents: On the other, their son, Georges, an inveterate gambler, spineless and cynical, who rejects his “library-like” father and, reversing his family's social path, becomes a farmer, much to the chagrin of his young wife, Louise. It gradually becomes clear that Louise is preparing to leave Georges to join her lover - though she struggles to make up her mind: she is held back by her affection for an old woman dying in the next room, who no longer recognizes anyone but herself.

By Claude Simon, directed by Alain Françon assisted by Franziska Baur, set by Jacques Gabel, lighting by Jean-Pascal Pracht, costumes by Pétronille Salomé, make-up and hair by Cécile Kretschmar.
With Catherine Hiegel, Léa Drucker, Catherine Ferran, Pierre-François Garel and Alain Libolt.

Coproduced by Théâtre de Montansier/Versailles.