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Harpagon only loves his money and suspects everyone of wanting to steal it from him. To marry his two children, he made the choice of a rich widow for his son Cléante and for his daughter, Élise, of Lord Anselme, a mature, noble and very rich man. Harpagon is in a hurry to accommodate his children to marry himself a poor young girl, Marianne, whose beauty charmed him ...
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An astonishingly modern piece, psychologically fascinating. The story of the Miser, like all the other great works of Molière, is the story of an unbridled passion, if not mad, which ends up disturbing the social order. Unlike Dom Juan who exists in spending, this is a passion for restriction, return to oneself, restraint, income. Harpagon, for whom all means of fighting death are good, avidly seeks what seems eternal to him - money - and what can breathe new life into him, the youth of Marianne ... Gold, to the evidently, could not satisfy his hunger; outside himself, he could only doom Harpagon to failure and anguish. And this failure really started when Harpagon, fascinated by Marianne, like Arnolphe by Agnès or Alceste by Célimène, began to passionately desire the one who could be his little girl ... So, everything will go wrong,Daniel Benoin
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We say to ourselves that this is an intelligent staging, which does not overly appeal to the vain pleasures of "proofreading", without however depriving itself, here or there, of clever winks to the taste of the day. Benoin follows the classic deal, without adoring him with too many annoying little finds. His work is reminiscent of the lessons of Planchon, the one before, which rejuvenates our vision of Molière without yet leading him astray on side roads. Jean-Pierre Léonardini, L'Humanité
Daniel Benoin reveals the grinding humanity of this cruel story, where the ardor of youth revives a world damaged by avarice. With a remarkable Michel Boujenah. La Terrasse
How to be surprised by one more Miser? This one amazes. Sometimes the theater is inspired.Le Canard Enchainé
