Cast :
Isabelle Huppert,
Justine Bachelet,
Cyril Guei,
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

« The scene is memory ». It is populated with a trio of faces: a mother, Amanda and her two children Laura and Tom. Amanda still pictures herself as a great southern lady. Tom provides for his family and rushes to the cinema whenever he gets the chance. Laura spends hours with her spun glass animals… Three solitudes almost behind closed doors, three frailties, three ways to dream of a different life. The plot is simple, elusive like a memory. After Arthur Miller’s A view from the bridge (2015-2016 grand prix of the Syndicat de la critique), Ivo van Hove returns to the Odéon with this founding masterpiece and offers Isabelle Huppert one of the mythical roles of the American repertoire.

Cast

mise en scène Ivo van Hove
traduction française Isabelle Famchon
dramaturgie Koen Tachelet
scénographie, lumière Jan Versweyveld
costumes An D’Huys
son et musique Georges Dhauw

 

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production Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

 

coproduction La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale, Onassis Stegi – Athènes, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Thalia Theater – Hambourg, deSingel – Anvers, Barbican – Londres


 

La Ménagerie de Verre est présentée en vertu d’un accord exceptionnel avec The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
La pièce est gérée en Europe francophone par Marie-Cécile Renauld, MCR Agence Littéraire en accord avec Casarotto Ramsay Ltd.

 

 avec le soutien du Cercle de l’Odéon

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Biography of Ivo van Hove

Since his debut in Belgium in the 1980s, Ivo van Hove, director of the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam from 2001 to 2024, has established himself as one of the most important directors on the European stage. His repertoire ranges from the classics to modern texts and film scripts.

In 2008, his Roman Tragedies based on Shakespeare, transposed into a contemporary world of power, met with the enthusiasm of French audiences. He subsequently presented Le Misanthrope at the Ateliers Berthier in 2012, with the Schaubühne company, Arthur Miller's Vu du pont (in 2015 and 2017), and Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead (2016). He directed Juliette Binoche in Antigone in 2015, then directed Les Damnés after Visconti at the Comédie-Française in 2016, Électre / Oreste in 2019, and Tartuffe ou l'hypocrite in 2022, while his Don Giovanni (created in 2019 at Garnier) was revived at the Opéra Bastille.