It's like that (if you want)

Theater

The arrival of a new civil servant – Mr. Ponza – arouses emotion in a small prefecture. Beyond the natural curiosity of the inhabitants, his behavior would intrigue anyone: he seems to sequester his wife and prevent his mother-in-law, Mrs. Frola, from going to see her daughter. He himself visits Madame Frola every day and is opposed to her seeing anyone. Why ?

Senior civil servant and next door neighbor of Ms. Frola, Agazzi absolutely wants an explanation. The old lady comes to give them herself – her son-in-law is crazy. In the meantime, Ponza runs up and declares that her stepmother is crazy. Who to believe? This family, a refugee after an earthquake, seems to be losing ground. Laudisi, a relative of Aggazi, is amused by all the hypotheses. All explanations are plausible. Curiosity increases as the comedy moves briskly toward an unexpected ending, which casually plays a trick on whoever followed the plot.

What do we know of things and people? What we see or what we think we see is often what we would like them to be. On this difficulty of defining reality, veiled as it is by subjectivity, Luigi Pirandello wrote in 1917 Così è (se vi pare) in French, let us translate: It's like that (if you want ).

In the press:

https://sceneweb.fr/cest-comme-ca-si-vous-voulez-julia-vidit-et-guillaume-cayet-revisitent-pirandello/

Team

New translation Emanuela Pace
Based on the text by Luigi Pirandello, adaptation and writing of Act IV: Guillaume Cayet
Director: Julia Vidit

With
Marie-Sohna Condé, Amalia
Erwan Daouphars: The Servant, The Superintendent, The Prefect, Madame Ponza, The Hitman
Philippe Frecon: Agazzi
Etienne Guillot: Mr. Sirelli
Adil Laboudi: Laudisi
Olivia MaboungaDina
Véronique Mangenot: Madame Sirelli
Barthélémy Meridjen: Mr. Ponza, Edouardo
Lisa Pajon: Madame Frola, The Militia of Truth

Dramaturgy: Guillaume Cayet
Scenography: Thibaut Fack
Lighting: Thomas Cottereau
Sound creation: Bernard Valléry
Costumes: Valérie Ranchoux-Carta assisted by Rose-Catherine Mariani, Rose-Catherine Mariani, Alix Descieux Read, Ophélie Reiller and Jennifer Ball
Wigs and makeup: Catherine Saint-Sever
Accessories: Antonin Bouvret
Assistant director: Maryse Estier
Set construction Design office Studio Cèdre, Set design workshop of the Theater de la Manufacture CDN Nancy Lorraine

General management and lighting: Jean Huleu, alternating with Sébastien Rebois
Sound management: Rozenn Lièvre alternating with Dominique Petit
Stage management: Simon Guirlinger
Dresser: Plum Lardé
Set builders: Stéphane Rubert, Patrick Martin, Sébastien Rebois, Karim Kessira and Simon Gelard

Photographs: Anne Gayan

Production
Manufacture Theater – CDN Nancy Lorraine

https://www.theatre-manufacture.fr/spectacle/cest-comme-ca-si-vous-voulez/