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Le Gai Mariage Gérard Bitton et Michel Munz | | DR |
| | | Henri de Sacy, an incorrigible womanizer, is told that he’s about to inherit a million euros from an elderly aunt, provided that he gets married within the year. When Henri refuses to give up his love of (all) women, his friend and lawyer Norbert advises him to get married - but to a man, ushering in the new law authorizing “gay marriage.” He would be respecting his aunt’s last wishes without losing his freedom. Despite being a hard-core heterosexual, Henri is tempted by the sum of money and decides to propose this unusual contract to his friend Dodo, a single actor who is out of work and has nowhere to live. Will their supposedly confidential marriage end up being for better or for worse? |
| “ Their play is, above all, really funny.”
Jean-Luc Jeener, Le Figaroscope, November 10-16, 2010
“Le Gai Mariage revives an old theater genre, the situation comedy, where the comic element resides in the convergence of incongruous and paradoxical events which the characters are locked into as victims of their own lies. Michel Munz and Gérard Bitton, expert screenwriter-directors, are unparalleled in using all the various comedic techniques to their greatest effect, through a multitude of misunderstandings and mistaken identities, and by applying the well-known theorem in which characters who are not supposed to meet come face to face. Thanks to their innate understanding of construction and an initial postulate of relentless credibility, Michel Munz and Gérard Bitton sweep you up into a wild and hilarious frenzy by brilliantly combining past (situation comedy), present (an action completely rooted in our times) and future conditional (legalization of gay marriage) - all the ingredients to make Le Gai Mariage pure entertainment.”
Note from the Director, José Paul
Note from the playwrights:
“We rarely worry about production constraints when writing a screenplay to be directed by us or entrusted to another director (even if we’re involved in the production). So we include a multitude of sets and masses of characters because a coherent story, powerful personalities and intense situations are the only things that count for us. Writing a stage play with five characters, one set and only three time ellipses - instead of hundreds - was a challenge that had long tempted us. The discipline imposed by these constraints was greatly offset by the pleasure involved in getting the most out of the comedic devices we used. While in film you’re putting together little bits and flashes, in theater you’re in a process of constant movement. In film you need a new idea every 30 seconds, whereas in the theater the same idea can be explored more in-depth and taken to its limits. That’s why we think the two genres are mutually enriching.”
Michel Munz & Gérard Bitton
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| Opened October 15, 2010 at the Théâtre des Nouveautés.
Director: José Paul and Agnès Boury. Cast: Gérad Loussine, Philippe Magnan, Lysiane Meis, Emmanuel Patron, Patrick Zard.
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| Characters : 1 women - 4 men -
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