L'Impromptu de Versailles by Molière by Miguel Loureiro, 2016

Strange animals to guide are the actors.

Eight days. To write and stage a play for the King in just eight days. This is the challenge Molière made to his troupe of actors. This is the challenge we see unfolding in The Impromptu of Versailles where, to everyone’s disbelief, Molière appears as playwright and actor of himself.

A show that is a rehearsal for the great show. Anxiety and expectation. Debate and uncertainty. Will it happen? An authentic celebration of the theatrical act. A fiction without fictional postulates. This is a brilliant comedy about theatre itself taken by Miguel Loureiro to the stage of D. Maria II, in the celebration of its 170thanniversary.

by Molière

Credits

Direction

Miguel Loureiro

Translation

João Paulo Esteves da Silva

Staging

Miguel Loureiro, Rodrigo Abecasis Fernandes, Vera Kalantrupmann

With

Álvaro Correia, Carla Bolito, Inês Nogueira, João Estima, Lúcia Maria, Maria Amélia Matta, Maria Duarte, Miguel Loureiro, Vera Kalantrupmann, Ana Tang, Sandra Pereira, Victor Yovani e Maria do Mar (violinista)

Set and Props

André Guedes

Costumes

Ana Rita Antunes, Catarina Graça

Lights

Daniel Worm

Dances

Miguel Pereira

Makeup and Hair

Jorge Bragada and Fátima Sousa

Set and Props Assistance

Sara Caria