Back to Molière! Since The Misanthrope (1998), tg STAN have often walked alongside the French playwright. Creating original assemblies with Poquelin (2003) and Poquelin 2 (2017), the Flemish collective showed us a gallery of funny, treacherous, and ridicule characters, misers and other imaginary invalids. Infidelity, hypocrisy, pretences… it had everything, or close to it! With 1, 2, 3 Poquelin, tg STAN return with a third scathing and exhilarating episode which synthesises their previous adventures, with eight actors playing forty characters thumbing their noses at the human tragicomedy. Quick changes in full view, rapid-fire acting, raw theatre… They follow in the footsteps of the Master of French theatre, using a staging device inspired by trestle theatre, specially created for them in the legendary Boulbon quarry. From the 17th to the 21st century, satire and laughter continue to go hand in hand every time there’s a crisis.
Distribution
By and with Robby Cleiren, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Damiaan De Schrijver, Els Dottermans, Tine Embrechts, Bert Haelvoet, Willy Thomas & Stijn Van Opstal
Text Molière
Lighting Luc Schaltin, Thomas Walgrave
Sounf Alexandre Fostier
Costume Inge Büscher, An d’Huys
External eye Frank Vercruyssen
Technical coordination Patrick Martens, Iwan Van Vlierberghe
Route management Mirte Declercq
Executive Management Karel Vermeerbergen, Inge Huysmans
Production
Production tg STAN
Co-production Les Nuits de Fourvière (Lyon), Festival d'Avignon, Le Quartz Scène Nationale Brest, Le Manège Maubeuge
With the support of Tax Shelter du gouvernement fédéral par le biais du Cronos Invest
tg STAN is funded by the Flemish Community
In partnership with France Télévisions
