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Fin d’été à Baccarat
Philippe Minyana
Actes du théâtre n° 5.[ imprimer ]
A family boarding house in the Vosges mountains. It’s nearly time to leave, and the fog is spreading over the frozen lake. The hotel-keeper’s husband is on his deathbed. A child has drowned in the lake. A fiancée arrives without warning. Her fiancée has fallen in love with the “servant girl”. Paule and Clément are both in love with Otto. There’s a mad scramble of people. It’s dizzying. It’s the end of summer with imperceptible changes of atmosphere.

«We see these emotive, impressionistic people in flashes and fragments that are at once painful, splendid, laughable, and moving.
Fin d’été à Baccarat is a comedy of individual dramas, a comedy that has had an accident. The landscape shows a misty lake and stains on the tablecloth, finding its equilibrium somewhere between sweet and sour, in the twilight between shadow and light, between laughing and crying …»
Gilles Guillot, director of the play

Théâtre 14 – Jean-Marie Serreau, from 19 Nov., 1996 to 5 Jan., 1997.
Director: Gilles Guillot. Set design and costumes: Claude Lemaire. Cast: Luce Ritz, Philippe Lemercier, Christian Drillaud, Thomas Jouannet, élisabeth Commelin, Micky Sébastian, Christiane Millet, Alain Courivaud, Nadia Barentin, Isa Mercure, Lysiane Meis.

Characters : 6 women - 5 men -
Éditions Théâtrales (réédition dans la nouvelle collection «En scène»).

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