Les rustres

Les rustres (2018)

Written in 1760, Carlo Goldoni’s comedy has never been performed at the Comédie-Française, perhaps overshadowed by the famousHoliday Trilogy. A satire of the Venetian merchant class, embodied by narrow-minded, complaining and intolerant men whose mistrust of the fairer sex borders on the absurd, The Boors perfectly illustrates Goldoni’s theatre, a “theatre of life with a real content, characters observed in reality, and a natural expression.” Thus, a theatre in which the man Voltaire described as “nature’s son and painter” scrutinises his contemporaries, their relationships and their social behaviour. His work served to entertain while providing posterity with an acute testimony of the morals of his time. Indeed, Jean-Louis Benoit warns against reducing the author to a simple “photographer of reality”.

Director: Jean-Louis Benoît

Casts

	Gérard Giroudon as Canciato
	Bruno Raffaelli as Simon
	Céline Samie as Marina
	Coraly Zahonero as Margarita
	Clotilde de Bayser as Felice
	Laurent Natrella as le comte Riccardo
	Christian Hecq as Lunardo
	Rebecca Marder as Lucetta
	Nicolas Lormeau as Maurizio
	Christophe Montenez as Filippetto

Crew