GENDER.ED is delighted to co-host a screening of La Compagnie Subversive Stage Production: Thérèse d’Ulrich’s La Folle Enchère (1690) at the L’Institut français d’Ecosse, with a presentation by artistic director and actress Aurore Evain, and Q&A led by Séverine Genieys-Kirk. This will be followed by a reception/buffet.
This event is part of LLC’s ‘Missing Matter: Challenges of and Approaches for a New Feminist Historical Recovery’ programme. Further information on the full programme of events can be found here: https://www.ifecosse.org.uk/festivals-and-series/missing-matter-challenges-and-approaches-for-a-new-feminist-historical-recovery/#/
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La Folle Enchère by Thérèse d’Ulrich was the first female-authored comedy to be performed at the Comédie-française in 1690 and met with great success at Louis XIV’s court. This burlesque play offers a witty version of Molière’s celebrated Fourberies de Scapin [Scapin the Schemer, 1671]. D’Ulrich’s characters delight in inventive and hilarious scheming to defy society’s patriarchal order – calling for ‘gender trouble’ and ‘social disobedience’ in multiple intergenerational combinations. With great panache and extravaganza, Aurore Evain’s stage production which premiered in 2019 at the Ferme Bel Etat – Théâtre de Guyancourt and at The Théâtre l’Epée de Bois, Cartoucherie de Vincennes, brings a modern edge to this Queer comedy. Through a clever mix of Baroque and ‘pop-rock’ overtones, Evain revives the incredibly resourceful spirit of a woman playwright who was better known for her liaison with Jean de La Fontaine than her creative talent, emancipated mind and avant-garde vision of social relationships.