MADEMOISELLE JULIE at Grand Theatre of the City of Luxembourg

In northern countries, a night of Saint-Jean, Miss Julie, an aristocrat, is given to John, the servant of his father. An act that disrupts a delicate balance and compromises the organization of a society.

Miss Julie by August Strindberg, the expression of a kind of Darwinism that wants only the strong survive, just like those greedy and commoners come to supplant a decadent nobility. But it is also a terrible confrontation with the impossibility for men to shape, manage their lives, they are prisoners of determinism of all types, biological, psychological and social, they are the "executors".

This piece calls itself, by itself, but its staging by Frederick Fisbach enmultipliera certainly arrests. Indeed, his "reading" by the person who was the "associate artist" of the Avignon Festival in 2007, no doubt, be original, considering the catalog of designs and the note of for this still young director. This reading, it will first proposed, played by Japanese actors in Japan, a country that has its favorite since its discovery and staged parts Oriza Hirata.

Interesting as no doubt will be the meeting between the director to the views very assertive and interpreters: Juliette Binoche and Nicolas Bouchaud. The first has already realized his dream of extra-cinematic escapades: Many people will remember seeing her dance with Akram Khan. This time, the theater tent, and a magnificent role. Nicolas Bouchaud, it is, to put it mildly, a strong character actor, and will be remembered then how he led galloped The Girl from Maxim directed by Jean-François Sivadier.

"Juliette Binoche, overwhelming in" Miss Julie "
Juliette Binoche has rarely been heard as the wanderings of the character. Beautiful, sensual, just tragic. With it, no more neurotic interpretations of Julie, whose male directors dispose too easily, by treating them as hysterical. Julie, thanks to Binoche, is close and familiar. Alive. Télérama

"Miss Julie puts the record straight, it" will tell his life, "and actress Juliette Binoche puts the record straight with her. She speaks, and many can go get dressed: it is not every night that we are also witnessing a masterful lesson in understanding the theater. Release

"Juliette Binoche has won in Miss Julie Avignon. The star is forgotten in favor of his character and his partner Nicolas Bouchaud plays a par with it. The staging reveals the juice of the Strindberg play. [...] In the title role in Strindberg's Miss Juliede, it is necessary with finesse and clear, never add more. But beyond his performance is all the show of Frederick Fisbach which is a real success, supported by two great actors: Nicolas Bouchaud and Benedicte Cerutti. And a scene remarkably accurate. [...] This is a adequacy Julie, of a truth, an absolute highlight. By the singular grace of the actress but also by the sharp vision of Fisbach on the work of Strindberg and the perfect alchemy between Juliette Binoche and her two partners. The Evening