La Corde: a chilling huis clos of manipulation and suspense at Studio Marigny

For the start of the 2025 season, Théâtre Marigny presents La Corde, a theatrical creation adapted from Patrick Hamilton's The Rope, made famous by Alfred Hitchcock's film. Directed by Guy-Pierre Couleau, this updated French version, imagined by Lilou Fogli and Julien Lambroschini, will take over the Studio Marigny from September 24 to December 28, 2025. Featuring a cast including Myriam Boyer, Lucie Boujenah and Grégori Derangère, the play plays with the codes of psychological thriller and black comedy.

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In a bourgeois salon, where banalities and ironies are exchanged over champagne, Louis and Gabriel have hidden the corpse of a fellow student in a trunk. The crime, committed with no apparent motive, is a simple intellectual challenge: a gratuitous act to assert their moral superiority. As the guests arrive and the evening progresses, the atmosphere becomes increasingly tense. Emile Cadell, the two young men's former teacher, begins to see the flaws in their words. Speech becomes a weapon, the slightest gesture suspicious, and laughter a fragile mask. This three-act huis clos explores the vertigo of power, the fascination of evil and the limits of morality.

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La Corde would appeal to audiences with a taste for psychological thrillers, chiseled dialogue and theatrical tension. The play would appeal to connoisseurs of Hitchcock's film as well as to audiences drawn to contemporary suspense plots. The tone is a blend of darkness and irony, with an elegant, disquieting ambience on the borderline between detective drama and gritty comedy. On the other hand, spectators looking for a linear narrative or a reassuring setting could be destabilized by the moral ambiguity of the characters and the density of the closed-door setting.

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With La Corde, Studio Marigny presents a taut, stylized theatrical thriller, where formal elegance rubs shoulders with the macabre. From September 24 to December 28, 2025, this adaptation of a classic of psychological suspense, supported by an established artistic team, invites spectators to question the limits of intellect and morality.

This article has been written on the basis of the information available about the show and is not based on a viewing review.

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