Fantasio

By Alfred de Musset Directed by: Laurent Natrella Assistant director: Marie-Evane Schallenberger Cast: Ismaël Attia, Pierre Boulben, Hugo Braillard, Clément Etter, Françoise…

By Alfred de Musset

Directed by: Laurent Natrella

Assistant director: Marie-Evane Schallenberger

Cast: Ismaël Attia, Pierre Boulben, Hugo Braillard, Clément Etter, Françoise Gautier, Linna Hassan Ibrahim, Zacharie Heusler, Loubna Raigneau

Disillusioned, idle and penniless, Fantasio is Musset's hero par excellence. A leading representative of a generation both clear-sighted and disillusioned, the young Romantic hero drowns his melancholy in bars with his friends for a night, until the moment he is struck by a revelation: the king's jester has just died, and he is going to replace him! Fantasio plays the sage beneath the mask of the clown and takes pleasure in denouncing the arrangements of power. By meddling in what does not concern him, he wrecks the marriage of Princess Elsbeth, freeing her from the yoke of convention and granting her the right to happiness and love, not without withdrawing from her love, since she will have mistaken him for the one destined for her… A philosophical tale not so dark after all, where revolt suddenly finds meaning in the power of action and commitment.

Executive production: Compagnie Les Ailes du désir

Co-production: Théâtre du Carouge - Genève, Suisse • Théâtre du Jura - Delémont, Suisse • Théâtre Équilibre-Nuithonie-Fribourg, Suisse • Les Colporteurs, with the support of the Conseil du Léman

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