Ruy Blas

Presented by La Companie de l'Elan. A man of the people, madly in love with the Queen, unknowingly becomes an accomplice to an infernal plot against the woman he loves... At the end of the seventeenth century, something is rotten in the kingdom of Spain.

The story unfolds under the reign of Charles II, an absent king afflicted with all the defects of inbreeding. His shadow hangs over the play. ' The drama unfolds in a kingdom in decay. Don Salluste, a grandee of Spain, wants revenge on the Queen.

Ruy Blas, who has only recently become Don Salluste's valet, is madly in love with the Queen. Don César, Don Salluste's cousin, leads a bohemian life under the name Zafari; it is under this name that Ruy Blas knows him, and the two had previously formed a brotherly friendship.

The Queen is bored, shut away in her palace, neglected by a king incapable of anything, who spends his time hunting. The scheming Don Salluste intends to use Ruy Blas as a pawn to attack the Queen. This madman Don César, who had disappeared, reappears in Act IV...

Everything mixes and intertwines until the inescapable conclusion. Directed by Daniel Krellenstein. Cast: Joséphine Cordesse, David Decraene, Simon Djaro, Nicolas Jonquères, Béatrice Mandelbrot, Hélène Willemin, Jean-Louis Zentelin. Lighting: Alexandre de Pardailhan.