L'Avare (The Miser) by Molière
Compagnie Parnas and cambodian artists.
Director: Director : Frank Manzoni and Catherine Marnas.
September Saturday 10th, Sunday 11th, Monday 12th 7pm, Chenla Theater
The Lakhaon Festival celebrates theater, annually, through multiple interpretations, stagings, themes and genres. Franco-Cambodian artistic cooperations, the festival allows French artists to join and support, for several months, the shaping of a theatrical work performed by Cambodian actors. last year, the Compagnie Parnas presented L'Affaire de la Rue Lourcine and this year L'Avare (The miser), by Molière, will be performed in Khmer, again in collaboration with the Compagnie Parnas.
L'Avare has been translated for the first time in Khmer by Chan Moun Pharie. The director Franck Manzoni and Catherine Marnas (who heads the Compagnie Parnas) have been in charge of casting the Cambodian actors. They offer us a new vision of this classical play.
L'Avare, a theater play written by Molière, was first performed on September 9, 1668, and is the second most performed play, after Tartuffe, by the Comédie Française. A tragic-comic mixture, paints the portrait of Harpagon, a man ready to sacrifice his children in order to avoid the slightest expenditure; a self-interested, insensitive man, living only to hoard the money hidden in his famous "cassette" (a strong box for preserving papers and precious objects). A small world to which he pays no attention, revolves around him. Harpagon wants to force his daughter to marry Anselme, an old friend, to marry his son to a widow. He himself wants to marry a young orphan. But his daughter Elise is secretly engaged to his personal steward, Valére, and his son Cléante is in love with Mariane. The miser is a comedy of lies and deceit, full of trials and tribulations. The public at Chenla Theater is sure to be pleased !
Catherine Marnas
Earning an ma in modern literature and a master of Semiology Theatre, Catherine Marnas was trained at the direction with two great names in contemporary theater, Antoine Vitez (1983-1984) and Georges Lavaudant (1987-1994). In parallel, she founded the Dramatic Company Parnas almost exclusively dedicated to contemporary repertoire. Animated by a constant wish to work on material still engaged with the world, she tries to defend authors as Dubillard, Copi, Frisch, Py, Pasolini Rebotier, Valetti, Brecht, Molière, Shakespeare, Chekhov. Bernard-Marie Koltes is her favorite author. Her willingness to confront her theater to otherness, her love of crosses, the curiosity of friction with other cultures regularly bring Catherine Marnas and her Company in many foreign adventures in South America and Asia.
Franck Manzoni
Trained at the École Jacques Lecoq, studied at the Cours Saskia Cohen-Tanugi, at the School of the National Theater Chaillot, and at the Conservatory of the National Dramatic Arts School in Paris. in the theater, he has performed under the direction of Jean-Marie Villégier, Hubert Colas, Yan Duffas, and many others. Franck Manzoni has been working since 1997 with Catherine Marnas. As permanent member of the Compagnie Parnas,he has appeared in numerous plays: L'Héritage (Koltès); Femmes, Guerre, Comédie (Brasch),The Girl with Hands of Silver (Py), le Crabeetle Hanneton (a collection of texts). Franck Manzoni was assistant director with Catherine Marnas for a project featuring Khmer actors in 2010 in Cambodia, "l'Affaire de la Rue Lourcine" (Labiche). In the cinema, he acted under the direction of Cédric Klapisch (When the Cat's Away...), Yves Angelo (les âmes grises), Dante Desarthe, Marie Vermillard. On television, Franck Manzoni has appeared under the direction of Philippe Lefebvre, Olivier Panchot, Josée Dayan.