2023-11-10 16:19:53
By Anthony Palou
Published yesterday at 3:19 p.m., Updated yesterday at 3:19 p.m.
The Diary of a Madman adapted and performed at Lucernaire by Ronan Rivière. Ben Dumas
CRITIQUE – Ronan Rivière adapts Gogol’s famous short story. Fascinating journey into the irrational.
How strange is this Gogol. Funny Cossack. What could be more fantastic, in every sense of the word, than The nose, The portrait or this masterpiece, The coat ? And what about Diary of a Madman adapted and performed at Lucernaire by Ronan Rivière whom we had already noticed, among others, in I review them from the same Gogol, The Novel of Monsieur Molière according to Bulgakov or Double according to Dostoyevsky. With his lanky physique, this stem body and his Terzieff-style rough-hewn “face”, his complexion suits Russian authors in general and Gogol in particular. He has sufficient latitude to interpret all his funny stories which seem dictated by the Devil himself.
Ridiculous and pathetic
In The Diary of a Madman, he is Aksenty Ivanovitch Poprichtchine, this little gray civil servant from Saint Petersburg who lives alone with his servant Mavra (wonderful Amélie Vignaux). The decor ? A severely leaning floor, moving wooden slats…
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