Cyrano de Bergerac

After its triumphant tour of France, the man with the extraordinary panache, as you have never seen him before, finally reaches Paris !  Pitoiset has often based his directing on a theater of the suffering body, captured in the cage of the stage like an entomologist’s jar.  His Cyrano is born from this vision of theater.  Locked up in an asylum, he carries from the start, the head wound that he usually only receives in the last act.  The whole plot may in fact turn around the delirium of one man, a delirium that he is shares with his friends in order to bring a bit of beauty into their horrible lives.  Cyrano, who is the first one to take himself for…Cyrano, does everything he can to persuade everyone else.  And it works : we accompany him, we believe in him, we let him take over our lives as he is carried along by the power of his poetry.  Pitoiset has won his wager – and along with him, Philippe Torreton, in one of his greatest roles ever.