Tolstoy's Le Bonheur conjugal at the Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse

Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse presents Le Bonheur conjugal, an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's text starring Anne Richard, opening May 23, 2025. A delicate reflection on love, everyday life and the passage of time.

In this adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's text, directed by Françoise Petit, Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse invites audiences to follow the inner journey of a woman confronted with the gap between the promises of love and the realities of life as a couple. Le Bonheur conjugal is performed every Friday and Saturday at 7pm, and on Sundays at 3pm, in a form that is at once literary, musical and introspective.

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At the center of the story is Macha, a young woman full of ideals, who discovers in the course of her married life the widening gap between dreamed-of love and everyday habit. In a chiaroscuro confession, she traces her hopes, illusions and disillusions with increasing lucidity. Accompanied live by Nicolas Chevereau's piano, playing Beethoven's Sonata "Quasi una fantasia", she would share her deepest thoughts in a form combining speech, music and memory. Tolstoy's text, delicately adapted here, would pose an ever-contemporary question: can love survive routine?

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The show would appeal to an audience with a taste for classical literature, sensitive to psychological finesse and live music as an emotional counterpoint. Those looking for comedy or collective storytelling might be less sensitive to this monologue form, centered on the inner world of a single character.

With Le Bonheur conjugal, the Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse offers a delicate immersion into the thoughts of a woman in search of the truth about love. A moment of literary and musical theater, in which Tolstoy interrogates with astonishing modernity the tension between desire, memory and everyday reality.

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