#French theater

[the-cricket-chirps]

Sarah Bernhardt

Self-Portrait as a Chimera, Inkwell

c. 1879

Clark Art Institute Collection

#sarah bernhardt #self portrait #bronze sculpture #inkwell #self portrait as a chimera #chimera #art history #french art #french artist #french sculptor #women artists #women in the arts #acting #theater #French theater #modern art #skull #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr #tumblrpic #tumblraesthetic #aesthetictumblr #aesthetic #modern aesthetic #tumblrposts #tumblrlove #beautiful

[shakespearenews]

Her staging of the Scottish play opens with an arresting tableau. Lady Macbeth sits hunched over, her face hidden under a disheveled mane. As she rips out clumps of her hair, a portrait of Macbeth, her husband, starts spinning on a wall behind her — until an invisible knife seems to cut into the painting.

It’s an ominous way to position Lady Macbeth, as a shadow addition to the three witches who prophesy that Macbeth will be king. When the trio appears shortly afterward to deliver their message, a giant ring materializes above the empty stage. In true “Lord of the Rings” fashion, it then descends upon Macbeth (Noam Morgensztern), metaphorically anointing him even as recorded whispers of “murder” fill the Comédie-Française’s auditorium.

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At the Comédie-Française, Costa’s “Macbeth” edits the two dozen named characters down to only eight actors and leans heavily into religious symbolism. In “Hamlet,” Jatahy goes so far as to keep Ophelia alive. Far from going mad, Ophelia climbs down from the stage and exits through the auditorium after declaring: “I died all these years. This year, I won’t die.”

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #odeon #comedie francaise #macbeth #hamlet #france #paris #french theater #theater #theatre

[ellenkushner]

Cleaning up my office/study/cave. You can probably see why I am reluctant to throw out this little flyer for a French play from 2019

#crossdressing #theatre #comédie française #sword girl #17th century #French theater #writer cave #cleaning

[beljar]

let us say before I go any further, that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come.

Samuel Beckett, from Malone Dies, 1951

#samuel beckett #Malone Dies #theater of the absurd #french theater #hell #literary text #books and libraries #world literature #living hell #quotes #confession #dark acadamia aesthetic #classic lit art

[creatediana]

Hippolytus to Aricia, II.iii of Jean Racine's Phèdre (Phaedra), 1677, translated by Robert Lowell, 1960

#influences #racine #jean racine #phaedra #phèdre #robert lowell #euripides #greek literature #french literature #verse plays #french theater #poetry in translation #queueing this for halloween bc you all know i think romance is scary! omo

[fructidors]

anyone out there got a link to a good production of huis clos (en français)? struggling to find one :)

#huis clos #no exit #sartre #french theater #théâtre français

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Léon Comerre (1850-1916) "Pierrot jouant de la mandoline" ("Pierrot playing the mandolin") (1884) Oil on canvas Academicism

#paintings #art #artwork #genre painting #portrait #léon comerre #leon comerre #oil on canvas #academcism #french artist #theatre #theater #white #costume #costumes #opera #pierrot #musical instruments #1880s #late 1800s #late 19th century #aesthetic #aesthetics

[eirene]

La danseuse Georges Antoine Rochegrosse

#Georges Antoine Rochegrosse #french art #art #painting #art history #early 20th century #illustration #theater #1900s #dancer #fashion #fashion history #portrait

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #les misérables #claude michel schönberg #Herbert kretzmer #Alain boublil #jean marc natel #language: english #language: french #(it’s originally in french but the english translation is incredibly well known)

[luxus-aeterna]

little Versailles in dtla

#Los Angeles theater #movie palace #baroque academia #dark academia #antique aesthetic #vintage aesthetic #French baroque #baroque aesthetic #antique academia #mine

[the-cricket-chirps]

Edouard Halouze, Moulin Rouge La Revue Mistinguett Advertisement, 1926 (left)

Charles Gesmar, Mistinguett/Moulin Rouge Advertisement, 1900-1928 (right)

Mistinguett, at the Moulin Rouge (1907-1929) (below)

#moulin rouge #mistinguett #advertising art #commercial art #graphic art #graphic artists #graphic designer #graphic design #aesthetic #beauty #French cabaret #French theater #montmartre #Paris nightlife #nightlife #french beauty #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr #french art #french designer #french aesthetic

[shakespearenews]

Barbara Schultz, left, as Rosalind and Ariane Mourier as Celia in “As You Like It” at the Théâtre de la Pépinière. Credit: François Fonty

“As You Like It” is rarely performed in France, in part because its brand of pastoral fantasy isn’t easy to transpose, but the translator Pierre-Alain Leleu has provided this production with a brilliantly witty French rendition. Bréban, for her part, has a gift for instilling an exhilarating sense of collective rhythm in her actors. There isn’t a dull moment in her Forest of Arden; the relationship between the cousins Rosalind (Barbara Schulz) and Celia (Ariane Mourier) is especially loving and zany.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #as you like it #rosalind #celia #theater #theatre #french theater #shakespeare in translation #france #Pierre-Alain Leleu #Théâtre de la Pépinière

[retropopcult]

New Orleans, 1910. "Orpheum Theatre (St. Charles Theatre), St. Charles Street." 

#vintage #1910s #Louisiana #theater #The French Quarter #NOLA #The Big Easy

[beljar]

Sometimes I wonder if I'm not still asleep.

Samuel Beckett, from Waiting for Godot, September 1952

#samuel beckett #waiting for godot #theater of the absurd #existentialism #tumblr #books and libraries #text #quotation #literature #writing #quotes #novel #literary text #world literature #play #french theater #french philosophy #french literature

[didoofcarthage]

The Tomb of Agamemnon by Louis-Jean Desprez. French, c. 1787. Black ink and gray washes, heightened with white gouache, on beige paper. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Description from the Met:

Trained as an architect, the French artist Desprez was appointed by King Gustav III of Sweden in 1784 as the head stage designer for the Royal Opera in Stockholm. This drawing relates to the sets Desprez made for the Swedish opera Electra, which premiered at Drottningholm Castle on July 22, 1787. The scene of Agamemnon’s interment is in the prologue, which opens with Electra and Orestes plotting to avenge their father’s murder. Desprez’s rendering is cloaked in gloom, with torches and censers dramatically lighting the architecture from below.

#neoclassicism #Agamemnon #Louis-Jean Desprez #Louis Jean Desprez #stage design #theater design #Electra #opera #French #art #works on paper #mythology #pen and ink #gouache

[yaomeis]

Miya Rurika singing 私は神だ Je suis un dieu / Le cauchemar on Moon Troupe's performance of 1789: The Lovers of the Bastille (2015)

#takarazuka #1789 les amants de la bastille #1789 the lovers of the bastille #miya rurika #takarazuka revue #moon troupe #tsukigumi #asian theater #french musicals #dove attia #my stuff #missing miya hours...