A story of legacy, memory, and ghosts in which theatre and life become one.
Arthur Nauzyciel directs Le Malade imaginaire by Molière, into which he incorporates Le Silence de Molière by Giovanni Macchia. It brings Molière and his daughter Esprit-Madeleine together on stage in a healing and testamentary gesture. By refusing to follow in her father’s footsteps, she is the one who says no to Molière. Twenty-four years after his first production,
Arthur Nauzyciel has recreated the show with two actors from the original production, Laurent Poitrenaux and Catherine Veuillez, and seven young actors.
Arthur Nauzyciel is a stage director and actor. He directed the CDN d’Orléans from 2007 to 2016 and has been director of the Théâtre National de Bretagne since 2017. After studying visual arts and cinema, he entered the Théâtre national de Chaillot school directed by Antoine Vitez in 1987. Initially working as an actor under the direction of Jean-Marie Villégier, Alain Françon, Éric Vigner and Tsai Ming Liang, he went on to create his first stage productions, Le Malade imaginaire ou le silence de Molière based on Molière and Giovanni Macchia (1999) and Oh Les Beaux Jours [Happy Days] by Samuel Beckett (2003).
In France, he went on to create Place des Héros [Heroes Square], which marked Thomas Bernhard’s inclusion in the repertoire of the Comédie-Française (2004); Ordet [The Word] by Kaj Munk translated and adapted by Marie Darrieussecq at the Festival d’Avignon (2008); Jan Karski (Mon nom est une fiction) [My Name is Fiction] based on the novel by Yannick Haenel at the Festival d’Avignon (2011); Faim [Hunger] by Knut Hamsun (2011); Chekhov’s La Mouette [The Seagull] in the Cour d’Honneur at the Avignon Festival (2012); Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish with Étienne Daho (2013); and Jean Genet’s Splendid‘s (2015), with American actors and the voice of Jeanne Moreau, recreated on Zoom, live on screens during the 2020 Festival fantôme, the online edition of the cancelled Festival TNB. At the TNB, he created La Dame aux camélias (2018) based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils and Mes frères by Pascal Rambert (2021). In 2022-2023, he will stage Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde with the National Theatre of Prague for the TNB Festival, and recreate his first show, Le Malade imaginaire ou le silence de Molière (1999). In 2023-2024, he will direct Les Paravents [The Screens] by Jean Genet, and in 2024-2025 he will revive Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, which he created in Boston in 2008 with an American cast.
Arthur Nauzyciel is also director of the École du TNB, where he regularly teaches.
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