6/21/2023 0 Comments Lucrèce Borgia by Victor Hugo![]() ![]() And Lucrèce’s husband Don Alphonse, played by Dan Artus, not only shows off his breadth of acting skills but also remarkable confidence when spending a good part of the play on stage in his underpants. Nino Rocher, in the role as Lucrèce’s son Gennaro, displays masterful notes of sensitivity and youthful naiveté. In a highly physical-oriented play, Marina Hands delivers a captivating and heady performance as Lucrèce, cleverly portraying the heroine as the cunning woman she indeed was but also lending her fragility and emotions. Small wonder then that Victor Hugo’s stage play bearing her name, originally written in 1832, would engage the spectator’s senses and emotions to this day.įor four nights only, from 5th through 8th February, the TNN hosted La Compagnie Les 3 Sentiers, an équipe from Normandy that under the wings of talented director Lucie Berelowitsch brings Lucrezia Borgia and her entourage of men back to a new and utterly contemporary life. Few women in history fit that framework better than Lucrezia Borgia, infamous daughter of equally infamous Pope Alexander VI. Many of his works feature a recurring theme of patriarchy, violence, politics, and strong, intelligent women conscious of their sexual power and not shy to use it to rebel against oppression. Victor Hugo enjoyed provoking and questioning the status quo of the establishment. ![]() It wasn’t a tremor you just felt… it was Victor Hugo’s Lucrèce Borgia at the epicenter of the Theatre National de Nice’s most recent show. ![]()
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