In the Comédie-Française, a kitschy Cyrano de Bergerac as desired
This is a task that represents a challenge: reinterpretation Cyrano de Bergerac, a monument to the French theatrical repertoire without falling into déjà vu or being too extravagant. Although the play was performed more than a thousand times within the walls of the Richelieu Hall of the Comédie-Française, only four directors took part in the […]
Dorfles, Kundera and the tyranny of kitsch
What is kitsch, a word we usually translate as “bad taste”? Born in Germany, she came to our country thanks to Gillo Dorfles, who published his most famous work in 1968: “Kitsch, an anthology of bad taste“. It was reissued in the 1990s and now appears for Bompiani in a new, elegant edition that does […]