2016-01-22
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Recorded in Theatre de Fontainebleau. The story is about three high school friends in their forties who meet regularly for dinner. One evening, a fourth person is invited, the girl with whom all three were in love in high school. Then begins a part of the Game of Truth where indiscreet questions, sharp spikes and revelations come together. The piece is published by Art & Comedy (2007) and released on DVD.
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?
The local theater in Armstadt has to take a step back; the budget gets cut due to less audience. However, the actors try their best to prepare for a new piece.
Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. She received a package from the hotel "Le minet galant". The package contained a pair of suspenders belonging to her husband. Her best friend, Lucienne, advises her to find out for sure and to use a stratagem. They both send him a fake, passionate letter, written by a beautiful stranger, asking him to meet her at the "Minet Galant"! But little do they know that the hotel's simpleton bellboy is a look-alike of poor Victor-Emmanuel!
Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself into compromising situations. The limit comes when a pair of Molly's stockings find their way into the boudoir of another man.
David and Phil, both in their early forties, have been involved in a gay relationship for some years. They decide to move in together and through all the scenes of this play, we follow their everyday life: they visit a flat to buy, have a romantic dinner in a restaurant, try to install their brand new triple-play box, get invited or even baby-sit. A couple like any other... well, almost !
There are incredible things on the South Sea island of Titiwu: Professor Habakuk Tibatong has taught some animals to speak. For example, the pig lady Wutz, the quirky shoebill Schusch, the lively penguin Ping and the monitor lizard Wawa. On the rocky reef, the sea fan is always singing his "traurägän Lädär", and then there is the orphan Tim Tintenklecks. Everyone lives in peace and tranquillity - until the Urmel appears ...
When the friendship between two men is put to the test by two women, we can only laugh because the author has managed to adapt this situation in a superb comedy.
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
Helena loves the arrogant Bertram, and when she cures the King of France of his sickness, she claims Bertram as her reward. But her new husband, flying from Helena to join the wars, attaches two obstructive conditions to their marriage - conditions he is sure will never be met. Featuring Olivier-award winning actress Janie Dee as the Countess of Roussillon.
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
When the King of Navarre and his three courtiers forswear all pleasure - particularly of the female variety - in favour of a life of study, the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies plays havoc with their intentions. Using every kind of verbal gymnastics to poke fun, Shakespeare's most intellectual comedy is brought to hilarious life in this highly entaining production, rich in visual humour and sexual innuendo.