with Joaquim Fossi, Xavier Gallais, Khadija Kouyaté, Xaverine Lefebvre, Jeanne-Marie Lévy, Anthony Moudir, Irina Solano, Pascal Ternisien, Vincent Winterhalter

Subversive hero or vile predator? Staging Dom Juan today necessarily implies taking stock of things that have shifted, in the last years, for great seducers… Macha Makeïeff moves the play from the 17th century, in which religion was a central issue, to the following century, that of Laclos and Sade. This move allows her to address head on the question of erotic libertinism on three levels. That of the 18th century: her Don Juan is obsessed by transgression and pleasure, but also hunted down by a society whose foundations he wants to undermine. That of the not-so-distant 20th century, in which such a hero could crystallize a fascination for his "cursed dimension." And that of the 21st century: in the show, women are on the offensive to denounce the predator’s manipulations. But if the director chose Molière’s play to question the cruelty of domination, the mortal game of subjection, the quest for pleasure up to Evil and the "masculine mystery," it is only to subject all these shades of darkness to the disintegrating power of laughter.

Cast

direction, set and costumes Macha Makeïeff
lighting Jean Bellorini assisted by Olivier Tisseyre
sound Sébastien Trouvé assisted by Jérémie Tison
make-up, wigs Cécile Kretschmar
movement Guillaume Siard
painted canvas (harpsichord) Félix Deschamps Mak
assistant director Lucile Lacaze
set design assistant Nina Coulais
assistant to the costumes Laura Garnier
assistant to the props Marine Martin

general management André Néri  
stage management Marine Helmlinger
prop management Jeanne Doireau
technical intern Joamin Vasseur
Pavillon Bosio intern Louise Chatelain


general coordination and production Mathieu Gerin
administration Pauline Ranchin
diffusion Pascale Boeglin-Rodier

decor and costumes design ateliers du TNP
props design DTMS Machiniste Constructeur du Lycée professionnel Jules Verne - Sartrouville

coproduction compagnie MadeMoiselle - Macha Makeïeff, Théâtre national populaire - Villeurbanne, Châteauvallon-Liberté - scène nationale de Toulon, Théâtre national de Nice, Le Quai - CDN Angers Pays de la Loire, Grand Théâtre de Provence

with the support of the Dispositif d’Insertion de l’ÉCOLE DU NORD, financed by the Ministère de la Culture et la Région Hauts-de-France; the dispositif d’insertion professionnelle de l’ENSATT; Arsud; the Pavillon Bosio, École supérieure d’arts plastiques de Monaco

the company MadeMoiselle is supported by the Ministry of Culture

creation in March 2024

Biography of Macha Makeïeff

Author, director, visual artist, set and costume designer, Macha Makeïeff has designed numerous theatrical and operatic productions. In opera, she has collaborated with John Eliott Gardiner, William Christie, Louis Langrée, Christophe Rousset, Laurence Equilbey... Her repertoire is very varied. While Molière has been a major part of her work in recent years - notably with Trissotin ou Les Femmes savantes (2015) which successfully toured as far as China, and with Tartuffe Théorème (2021) - she has also, in the same period, directed Lewis versus Alice in Avignon in 2019, and Bulgakov's The Flight in 2021. 


As a costume designer, she regularly participates in productions by Jérôme Deschamps and Jean Bellorini. She has also curated several exhibitions - at the Cinémathèque française, the Fondation Cartier and the Grand Palais. 


After having been artistic director of the Théâtre de Nîmes from 2003 to 2008, Macha Makeïeff directed La Criée -Théâtre national de Marseille from 2011 to 2022, where she developed a programme combining theatre, music, dance, images, plastic arts and circus. Since July 2022, she has created her company Mademoiselle based in Aix-en-Provence, which focuses on both creation and transmission in art schools. She is currently preparing an exhibition for the Mucem and working on a theatrical adaptation of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Qui je suis.