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Molière : Dom Juan
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From Tuesday 26th to Sunday May 31st 2026
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Royal Opera
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2h30 without intermission
Cast
- Compagnie MadeMoiselle
- Xavier Gallais Dom Juan
- Vincent Winterhalter Sganarelle
- Irina Solano Elvire, The Ghost
- Pascal Ternisien Dom Luis, Mr Sunday
- Jeanne-Marie Lévy A libertine, Musician
- Xaverine Lefebvre Charlotte, A libertine, The Commander
- Vanessa Missé Mathurine, A libertine
- Joaquim Fossi Dom Alfonse, Pierrot
- Anthony Moudir Dom Carlos, Gusman
- Macha Makeïeff Direction
- Jean Bellorini, assisted by Olivier Tisseyre Lights
- Sébastien Trouvé, assisted by Jérémie Tison and Frédéric Guillaume Sound
- Cécile Kretschmar Makeup and wigs
- Guillaume Siard Scene
- Lucile Lacaze Assistant director
- Laura Garnier Costume assistant
- Claire Thiebault-Besombes Stage Management
- Marine Helmlinger Stage Operations
- Jeanne Doireau Props and Stagehand
- Mathilde Boffard Wardrobe Management
- Françoise Chaumayrac Make-up and Hair Management
- Pauline Ranchin Production Administration
- Pascale Boeglin-Rodier Distribution
Presentation
Beautiful disorders.
By a semantic shift around the figure of the libertine, my Dom Juan will be very sadistic, very 18th-century French, with the scent of an unmade bed, an atmosphere of Dangerous Liaisons, and an elegant transgressive and pleasure-seeking cynicism. Sadistic because, like this other “great lord and wicked man”, there is pleasure in doing Evil; there is the desire to display impiety and all kinds of excesses. In Dom Juan, as in Sade, two deviants share the stubbornness to “put on a show” in all circumstances; in this fugitive character as I imagine him, pursued and holed up at home, there remains a taste for disguise and all forms of lying. The matter is set not far from the Revolution that will shatter the Old Regime and its privileges. Libertinism and the Enlightenment, the excesses of the Regency.
Dom Juan has his Sganarelle as Sade had his Latour, a mirror accomplice in his sacrilegious escapades. Love-hate between servant and master, a perverse game of domination, fascination-hate. Dom Juan as a Don Giovanni on the edge of the abyss, blasphemous, incandescent, reclusive. At home, in his den, the fire, the laundry, the shadows remain. Dom Juan has a sense of numbers, lists, and a cynical accounting of his assaults and conquests. The female body is there. To enjoy it then debase it.
Show moreAs the sky is empty, it is human society that will rid itself of this bad subject who defies the course of the world, who perverts and threatens social order.
Dom Juan has killed; from the beginning, death is present as a floating presence, and the plot of his defeat tightens around him. A nearly familial conspiracy is brewing. Also brewing is a woman’s vengeance: “At least fear the anger of an offended woman”.
The character of Elvire is to be revisited; powerful, ambivalent, dangerous, sublime, she is beyond grief. Here, I want to express a woman’s rebellion against a destiny assigned to humiliation and degradation by the all-powerful desire of a man. A cruel tearing from the one loved and what follows.
I stage Dom Juan after Tartuffe, which we have already performed more than a hundred times, because the two works are so closely linked by the theme of transgression. Indeed, Molière wrote Tartuffe in three acts, which was banned, then Dom Juan, which was stopped very early on, then Tartuffe in five acts. I’m staging these two plays from a female perspective and through women’s eyes; where do we stand on seduction and betrayal? Questions about desire, predation, consent, rebellion, and the deadly game of subjugation. To speak again of pleasure to the point of Evil and mystery of the man in front of me, which never cease to question me.
In spite of the tragedy, this show still offers the joys of great comedy and is bursting with laughter !
Macha Makeïeff.
Production by Compagnie MadeMoiselle – Macha Makeïeff.
Co-production : Théâtre National Populaire – Villeurbanne; La Criée – Théâtre National de Marseille; Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale de Toulon; Théâtre National de Nice; Le Quai – CDN Angers Pays de la Loire; Grand Théâtre de Provence.
With the support of Pavillon Bosio, Higher School of Visual Arts of Monaco.
Compagnie MadeMoiselle is supported by the DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Set construction and costume making: workshops of the TNP.
Prop making : DTMS Machinist Builder of Jules Verne Vocational High School – Sartrouville.
The Compagnie Mademoiselle is supported by Spedidam.
Programme
Comedy in five acts, premiered at the Palais-Royal in Paris in 1665.
Show in French without surtitles.
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More infoCatégorie 1
46€ à 101€
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Promo Carte CVS46€
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Tarif Plein101€
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Tarif moins de 26 ans86€
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Carte CVS86€
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France Amériques86€
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Carte 1 an à Versailles46€
Catégorie 2
65€ à 77€
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Tarif Plein77€
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Tarif moins de 26 ans65€
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Carte CVS65€
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France Amériques65€
Catégorie 3
45€ à 53€
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Tarif Plein53€
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Tarif moins de 26 ans45€
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Carte CVS45€
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France Amériques45€
Prestige
65€ à 143€
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Promo Carte CVS65€
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Tarif Plein143€
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Tarif moins de 26 ans125€
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Carte CVS125€
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France Amériques125€
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Carte 1 an à Versailles65€
Prestige VIP
166€
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Tarif Plein166€
PRESTIGE VIP CATEGORY : Best seats in house, you will receive a complimentary programme and a glass of champagne.
PRESTIGE CATEGORY : Excellent seats, you will receive a complimentary programme and a glass of champagne.
REDUCED RATE : applicable to under 26s, Chateau de Versailles Spectacles card holders and groups of more than 10 people (excluding special company offer).
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