Too rare in the theater, the actress will be back on the boards at the start of the school year in a new play. She will give the reply to François Berléand.
Sophie Marceau will be back at the theater at the start of the school year in a new play, Note by Audrey Schebat, who will also be directing at the Bouffes Parisiens, before a tour in 2025, the production announced on Monday June 5. Playwright and director Audrey Schebat is best known for her play The parakeetgreat success with Barbara Schulz.
In “La Note”, a couple takes stock
The actress of The party will share the poster for the first time at the theater with François Berléand, with whom she had toured in 2012 in Happiness Never Comes Alone by James Huth.
Note, whose premiere will take place on September 28, features Maud, a world-famous pianist, and Julien, a renowned psychoanalyst, forced one fine day to take stock of their couple after thirty years of living together. “Between anger and humor, their intimate confessions follow each other like a final attempt to find meaning in their lives.“, emphasizes the production.
An actress too rare in the theater
“I projected myself into this role and here we go again!confided on May 30 to the Figaro the 56-year-old actress. “I have trouble reading plays, I’m more used to scripts“, she added, adding that she had found the text of Note “handsome, funny, smart.” “The desire for theater is to return to children’s games”, she still assured. “It’s like riding a bike, we’re free as a bird, we’re 12!“
With some fifty films to her credit, including four as a director, Sophie Marceau, César for Best Female Hope in 1983 for The Boom 2 and Molière of the theatrical revelation in 1991, is rare on stage. Note will be his fourth piece after Eurydice by Jean Anouilh in a production by George Wilson in 1991, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw in a staging by Bernard Murat in 1993 and A story of soul by Ingmar Bergman in a production by Bénédicte Acolas in 2011.