Fantasio

Fantasio By Alfred de Musset Directed by: Laurent Natrella Assistant Director: Marie-Evane Schallenberger Cast: Ismaël Attia, Pierre Boulben, Hugo Braillard, Clément Etter, Françoise G

Fantasio

By Alfred de Musset

Directed by: Laurent Natrella

Assistant Director: Marie-Evane Schallenberger

Cast: Ismaël Attia, Pierre Boulben, Hugo Braillard, Clément Etter, Françoise Gautier, Linna Hassan Ibrahim, Zacharie Heusler, Loubna Raigneau

Disillusioned, idle, and penniless, Fantasio is Musset's quintessential hero. An eminent representative of a generation both clear-sighted and disillusioned, the young romantic hero drowns his melancholy in bars with his fleeting friends, until he is struck by a revelation: the king's jester has just died, and he will replace him! Fantasio appears wise beneath the clown's mask and takes pleasure in denouncing the arrangements of power. By meddling in what doesn't concern him, he thwarts Princess Elsbeth's marriage, freeing her from the yoke of convention and granting her the right to happiness and love – not without escaping her love, as she will have mistaken him for the one destined for her… A philosophical tale not so dark, where rebellion suddenly finds meaning in the power of actions and commitment.

Delegated production Compagnie Les Ailes du désir

Coproduction Théâtre du Carouge - Geneva, Switzerland • Théâtre du Jura - Delémont, Switzerland • Théâtre Équilibre-Nuithonie-Fribourg, Switzerland • Les Colporteurs, with the support of the Conseil du Léman

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