L'Ecole des Femmes de Molière

directed by Frédérique Lazarini It's the story of a day in Arnolphe's home. On this day, the guardian decides to marry the young girl he keeps locked up. But then, she begins to d

directed by Frédérique Lazarini

It's the story of a day in Arnolphe's home. On this day, the guardian decides to marry the young girl he keeps locked up. But then, from her balcony, she begins to discover the world… This day will also be the one when the prisoner, in love, leaves her jailer. With L’École des femmes, Frédérique Lazarini continues her tribute to heroines who resist or emancipate themselves… and questions the fate of Agnès, entrusted to Arnolphe when she was only four years old and raised in a convent. In her glass-walled child's room, the ward has only ever been lulled by a single discourse, and her education has been built solely on the precepts of her jealous and possessive protector. Constantly monitored, kept dependent, the one who one day confronts the outside world (and love) has reached the age of bodily upheavals and emotional stirrings, but suffers from the extreme naivety carefully maintained in her mind. Yet, beneath the fabric of her innocence, a chrysalis slowly cracking, Agnès, becoming almost daring, stands on the threshold of her metamorphosis, ready to exist… and her sudden and irreducible blossoming leads Arnolphe into a descent into hell. This school for wives will question our world. A world where Arnolphes are in principle punished, where young girls think they are following their own inclinations, where young people seem so free… A world where, as in any world, the amorous transports of these beings, who mutually seek and find each other, are inalienable. And where love and laughter are sometimes merciless. A new reading of Molière's work, clear and organic, lively and visual, seductive and subversive!