Corneille's Le Menteur, Marion Bierry's successful adaptation at the Théâtre de Poche

Le Menteur, adapted from Corneille 's play and directed by Marion Bierry, opens at La Scala on April 7, 2025. A play featuring Corneille as a writer of comedies, who is often considered a writer of tragedies.

The play features Dorante, a young man who has just finished his studies. Together with his valet, he meets two young women and invents a military career in order to seduce them. The protagonist soon finds himself a prisoner of his own lies, and a series of pro quos and misunderstandings ensue. The young women are not completely fooled, however, and seek revenge on their seducer...

In her adaptation of the play,Marion Bierry chose to mix the text of Le Menteur with La suite du Menteur, also by Corneille, and considers it "impossible to give up this typically Cornelian facetiousness of playing, in the theater, with the theater". The cast includes Alexandre Bierry, Stéphane Bierry, Benjamin Boyer, Marion Lahmer, Mathilde Riey and Balthazar Gouzou. Le Menteur, adapted from Corneille 's text by Marion Bierry, can be seen at La Scala de Paris, in the 10th arrondissement until April 7, 2025.

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