Theatre: The Corneille-Molière Affair

16 Rue des Thermes, Espace Molière

At the start, there is the very serious controversy: Molière would have written nothing, and Corneille would have been his pen. This is supported by the fact that no Molière manuscript has been found (and no more for Corneille!) and that a Jean-Léon Gérome painting, La Collaboration, shows the two authors in a lively discussion around a table in Rouen. From there, the young and talented author Marc Tourneboeuf has devised a breezy, twist-filled investigation that, in May ’68, leads three Sorbonne students to defy their professor to defend Molière. The staging by Jul…