Le Mariage de Figaro (Pierre Beaumarchais), 2012
Le Mariage de Figaro, later adapted by Mozart into the well-known opera, was written 5 years before the French Revolution. Count Almaviva now regrets the promise he made to his wife Rosine in the previous installment, The Barber of Seville, to renounce his “droit de seigneur”, mainly because he fancies his valet Figaro’s fiancée, Suzanne. His one-track attempts to realise his desires come up against a combination of the spurned Countess’s anger and the quick thinking of the arch-improviser Figaro and his resourceful wife-to-be, plus the unexpected discovery of a long-lost mother. Social and gender politics crackle through Beaumarchais’s brilliant dialogue and visual imagination, aided by plenty of coups de théâtre.
Cast -
Le Comte – Alain Wolf
La Comtesse – Claudine Tourniaire
Figaro – Erwann Limon
Suzanne – Yaël Chausson
Marceline – Dani Limon
Antonio – Ralph Yarrow
Fanchette – Harriet Cook
Chérubin – Claire Cuminatto
Bartholo – Chris Rose
Bazile – Alexandra Coyne
Don Guzman Brid’Oison – Tony Conway
Doublemain – Emma-Louise Wagstaff
Grippe-Soleil – Nathalie Kali
Pedrille – Jack Nelson
L’Huissier – Casey Drabble
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