Bruno Podalides Outside, Marina Hands in Vieux-Colombier, Virginia Herrion in Port-Louis… Madame Figaro Cultural Week

Cruising is fun

After the disappointment Wow! !Bruno Podalides is back in great form The Little Mop, a light-hearted comedy that navigates nostalgia and absurdity with ease. Justine, a devoted co-worker, is entrusted by her wealthy boss with a tidy sum to arrange a surprise weekend for the woman he fancies. She decides to share the envelope with her husband and his friends, planning a discounted river cruise. The deception turns sour when, on the day of departure, his manager reveals to him the name of the woman he has invited on this boat trip. Troupe leader Sandrine Kiberlain has fun with the balancing act between seduction and evasion, Denis Podalides is irresistible as the jealous and malicious husband, and Daniel Otey reminds us what a formidable comic actor he can be in this game. the role of a smug businessman confident in his charms. This trio and their accompanying merry band navigate this harbor as if on a theater stage, with bold excess and charming historiography. A delicious mix of “sweetness, fun and melancholy”. Acid and light poetry,” says Sandrine Kiberlain, who reunites with Bruno Podalides for the third time. Like an airplane And The two Alfreds. M.L.

The Little MopWith Bruno Podalides, Sandrine Kiberlain, Denise Podalides, Daniel Autu, Florence Muller and…

Marina Hands, theater play

The daughter of English director Terry Hands and actress Lyudmila Michael is a ball child. Following in the footsteps of her mother, herself French, she first joined the troupe in 2006-2007, leaving behind fond memories of her interpretations with Claudel, including Issei. Afternoon sharing. Overshadowed for around ten years following theatrical side paths, notably with Pascal Rambert, he returned to the Comédie-Française in 2020 and became its 542nd member this year. A prosperous season for him. He plays for Vieux-Colombier The silence, a show by Guillaume Pois and Lorraine de Sagazan inspired by Antonioni, which achieves the feat of expressing absence, mourning, sorrow without words. He takes over the music show But what a comedy !, was created with Serzh Baghdasaryan. And climb up Six characters in search of an authorby Pirandello, a work particularly close to his heart, along with Adeline d’Hermy and Guillaume Gallien among others… the incomprehension, the fear, the fascination that I felt throughout my youth,” he says. L.K.

Six characters in search of an authorAfter Luigi Pirandello. directed by Marina Hands, June 5-July 7 at Vieux-Colombier, Paris. comedie-francaise.fr:

Virginie Hériot, naval courage

Nearly a hundred years ago, Virginia Herriot was the first female sailor to win a medal at the Olympics. He was born in 1890 into a bourgeois French family, which gave him a taste for sailing and the sea very early on. In 1910 she married Viscount Francois Heinc de Senoch, who taught her the basics of regattas. In 1921, the couple divorced. Virginia Herio then embarked on the project of a lifetime; take part in sailing races. With the money she inherited, she built thirteen competitive sailboats and participated in an average of one hundred regattas a year to establish herself in this male environment. His persistence paid off. In 1928, the sailor won a gold medal at the Amsterdam Olympics and the following year at the Coupe de France. He is taken seriously by his male peers. its influence goes beyond the sphere and borders of seafaring; the English call her “the world’s largest yacht”. During another regatta, he died at sea at the age of 42. In this Olympic year, the citadel of Port-Louis in Morbihan is dedicating a retrospective to him. From her family background to her athletic prowess, her stamp on fashion, her extraordinary life is in the spotlight. ZT:

Virginia Herriot. Navigator at the top of Olympus, until September 30 in the citadel of Port-Louis (Morbihan). museum-marine.fr: