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LOST ILLUSIONS AND THE LIGHT-HEADEDNESS OF LOVE FEATURE IN THE MASTERPIECE BY THE EMINENT ITALIAN PLAYWRIGHT EDUARDO DE FILIPPO.

It starts with a performance: Otto the magician is making Calogero’s husband disappear, doing so at the request of the husband’s mistress so that the two can run away together. Four years go by… but the magician has convinced Calogero that the lapse of time is only the short duration of the show on stage, that her husband is there locked inside the box and that she will be able to open it once she is convinced that he really is inside. With De Filippo, we are clearly in the realm of a fable, a setting for the imagination rather than a real-life situation acted out on stage. Here is a drama driven by a weird and wonderful vision of the world, by powerful and mysterious human strength.
The work no doubt interested us because of the subject of magic and illusion, in line with Pirandello’s Six Characters. As is the case with Pirandello, life is a strange version of role-play, and reality is nothing but the fruit of our imagination. La Grande Magie stands as part of a broader way of addressing the meaning of our world and society, of our relationship with reality, with truth and illusion. What is truth and can the stage bring it forth?


A few magnificent, dreamlike images plus an unsettling gender switch as Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota brings new life to the play in its opaque light. Télérama

The staging is spectacular, and the tragi-comic duo of Valérie Dashwood as Calogero and Serge Maggiani as Otto the magician works delightfully. Les Echos

The staging by the director of the Théâtre de la Ville conveys an intelligent and enlightening view of the intentions of the playwright from Naples. (...) And at the end, the audience is quite unsettled. Le Figaro

Unexpected and disquieting. (...) The atmosphere is of a funfair, with all its sounds, lights and machinery: effective and impressive. L’Humanité

Duration
01:35
Price
From €8 to €33
Schedules
15:00, 20:00
Place

Texte Eduardo De Filippo
Mise en scène Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota

Traduction Huguette Hatem
Assistant to the director Julie Peigné, Christophe Lemaire
Scenography Yves Collet, Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
Lighting Christophe Lemaire, Yves Collet
Costumes Fanny Brouste
Music Arman Méliès
Video Renaud Rubiano
Consultant for magic Hugues Protat
Sound Flavien Gaudon
Make-up & hair Catherine Nicolas
Accessories Erik Jourdil

With the Troupe du Théâtre de la Ville
Serge Maggiani, Valérie Dashwood, Marie-France Alvarez, Céline Carrère, Jauris Casanova, Sandra Faure, Sarah Karbasnikoff, Stéphane Krähenbühl, Gérald Maillet, Isis Ravel, Pascal Vuillemot

Production Théâtre de la Ville-Paris.

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Tue 1 Apr 2025

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