Poor Bitos! Or The Masked Dinner | Jean Anouilh
Poor Bitos! Or The Masked Dinner by Jean Anouilh, directed by Thierry Harcourt
Introduction
A scathing, cruelly triumphant comedy.
André Bitos is a son of the people who becomes France’s deputy public prosecutor. In this capacity, he creates a reign of terror in the aftermath of the Liberation, becoming a cruel official. Returning to the small, provincial town where he was born, he is invited by some former classmates, members of good society, to a “masked dinner”, where guests must each portray a figure from the French Revolution. Bitos will be Robespierre. But the evening is cover for a trap: in a parallel with the Terror and the Purge, the plan is to get Bitos drunk and reveal Tartuffe “or the Imposter” while disguised as the Incorruptible, all the better to humiliate him and destroy his career.
Approximate running time: 1h20 without intermission
Casting and technicians
Featuring Maxime D’Aboville, Adel Djemai, Francis Lombrail, Adrien Melin, Etienne Menard, Adina Cartianu and Sybille Montagne
- Direction: Thierry Harcourt
- Set: Jean-Michel Adam
- Musics: Tazio Caputo
- Costumes: David Beluga
- Lighting design: Laurent Beal
Production
A co-production by Théâtre Hébertot, Atelier Théâtre Actuel, Canal 33-Le Brigadier, Studio Fact Live, MK Prod’
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