Several hundred residents of Trappes were able to attend an exceptional performance on Saturday in the prestigious Parisian theater, which was reserved for them. This event aims to fight against cultural inequalities.
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The 700 inhabitants of Trappes (Yvelines) get off the fifteen chartered buses in front of the Comédie-Française, which is reserved for them for this performance of The Miser by Moliere. “It’s really an honor for the troupe of the Comédie-Française to bring together all these inhabitants”, says Marine Jubin. The person in charge of the educational service of the theater came to welcome them. “It brings us a real revival of the public. How to inspire people who naturally would not come to discover the theater through texts that have marked the history of French theater?”she asks herself.
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This event is organized within the framework of the twinning which links, since the beginning of the year, this cultural institution to the municipality of Yvelines. The Comédie-Française had never been twinned with a city before. This project was partly supported by the mayor of Trappes, Ali Rabeh, to fight against cultural inequalities. “There are people here who have never been to the theater in their lives and a fortiori not to the Comédie-Française.”
“There are even a lot of people who have never been to Paris in their life. However, we are only 30 kilometers away!”
“There are mental, moral and cultural boundaries that we impose on ourselves that make us tell ourselves that theatre, art and Paris are not for us.“, regrets the city councilor. Ali Rabeh believes that this type of event makes it possible to explain to the inhabitants of his commune that they too “have the right to the best.” Maxime, a 15-year-old Trappist, is waiting to be able to enter the Comédie-Française, which he did not know at all. “When I told my grandmother, she told me that it was something world famous and suddenly I was interested”, explains the schoolboy who has never been to the theater in his life before.
The curtain then rises for a two-hour performance of The Miser of Molière punctuated with laughter and which leaves the public captivated. “It was splendid! Everything, everything, everything… everything was good”, enthuses a resident of Trappes when another says she wants to show the play to her children.