Cinderella, beautiful glass-slippered girl whose face is familiar all over the world…
An exceptional creator and a leading figure in contemporary theatre, playwright and director Joël Pommerat has always loved popular myths and stories. Most of all he loves revisiting them, reshaping them and reinventing them. Now, with the deft and humorous touch he brings to all his work, he reimagines Cinderella. He opens his version of the tale at a pivotal and distressing moment in the young girl’s life, revealing new and surprising aspects of a story that time has worn a little threadbare, and skilfully restoring its original depth and lustre. His aim, he says, is to create a show that is immediately accessible, immediately understandable and immediately affecting, the kind of theatre that truly engages the audience—in other words, great art.
Joël Pommerat’s artistic gaze reveals something that looks a lot like truth, and gives the Cinderella story contemporary resonance for all ages and for all time.
An exceptional creator and a leading figure in contemporary theatre, playwright and director Joël Pommerat has always loved popular myths and stories. Most of all he loves revisiting them, reshaping them and reinventing them. Now, with the deft and humorous touch he brings to all his work, he reimagines Cinderella. He opens his version of the tale at a pivotal and distressing moment in the young girl’s life, revealing new and surprising aspects of a story that time has worn a little threadbare, and skilfully restoring its original depth and lustre. His aim, he says, is to create a show that is immediately accessible, immediately understandable and immediately affecting, the kind of theatre that truly engages the audience—in other words, great art.
Joël Pommerat’s artistic gaze reveals something that looks a lot like truth, and gives the Cinderella story contemporary resonance for all ages and for all time.
Cast and Creative Team for Cendrillon at NAC Theatre
Written and directed by: Joël Pommerat
With: Alfredo Cañavate, Noémie Carcaud, Caroline Donnelly, Catherine Mestoussis and Deborah Rouach
Voice over: Marcella Carrara
Extras: Nicolas Nore and José Bardio
Assistant director: Pierre-Yves Le Borgne
Assistant director (on tour): Philippe Carbonneaux
Set and light: Éric Soyer
Music: Antonin Leymarie
Sound: François Leymarie
Video: Renaud Rubiano
Costumes: Isabelle Deffin
Produced by: Théâtre National de la Communauté française
Coproduced by: La Monnaie/De Munt
Collaboration: Compagnie Louis Brouillard
With: Alfredo Cañavate, Noémie Carcaud, Caroline Donnelly, Catherine Mestoussis and Deborah Rouach
Voice over: Marcella Carrara
Extras: Nicolas Nore and José Bardio
Assistant director: Pierre-Yves Le Borgne
Assistant director (on tour): Philippe Carbonneaux
Set and light: Éric Soyer
Music: Antonin Leymarie
Sound: François Leymarie
Video: Renaud Rubiano
Costumes: Isabelle Deffin
Produced by: Théâtre National de la Communauté française
Coproduced by: La Monnaie/De Munt
Collaboration: Compagnie Louis Brouillard
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