Les Molières 2023 have unveiled the list of nominees for the 34th edition, which will take place on April 24 at the Théâtre de Paris.
rock opera starmania successfully revisited since November was nominated for the Molières 2023, with a battle between three members of the Comédie-Française to be crowned best actor in the public theater.
This 34th edition of the great French theater ceremony will be held on April 24 under the leadership of Alexis Michalik at the Théâtre de Paris.
Isabelle Huppert is named for the ninth time as best actress in the public (The Glass Menagerie), facing Isabelle Carré, Sara Giraudeau and Catherine Hiegel.
Denis Podalydès in the running for the Molière for best actor
The house of Molière dominates the public theater with 11 nominations for five productions. Three heavyweights, Denis Podalydès (Le Roi Lear), Laurent Stocker (The Miser) ou Christian Hecq (The Bourgeois Gentleman) could win the Molière for best actor.
Two other members, Benjamin Lavernhe (La Dame de la mer d’Ibsen) and Christophe Montenez (Le Roi Lear) are nominated for the supporting role. Boarder Marina Hands (Le Roi Lear) was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Frozen, the forgotten storya show for young audiences created for the Frenchman, won two nominations.
It’se Bourgeois Gentlemanin the production of the couple Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort, which won the most nominations (4), including the Molière for public theatre, staging and sound and visual creation.
Two nominations for Starmania
In this last category, it faces starmania, directed by Thomas Jolly (who will be at the helm for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics). Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon’s opera-rock is also nominated for the Molière du spectacle musical.
Florence Foresti, Laura Felpin, Manu Payet or Stéphane Guillon could be rewarded in the humor category.
For the only one on stage, “Coming out” of Mehdi Djaadi who recounts his conversion to Catholicism and Thomas Plays His Wigs – Deluxe Editionwith Thomas Poitevin, revealed during confinement thanks to his sketches broadcast on social networks, are among the nominees.
On the private theater side, it will be the battle between Glenn, birth of a prodigy (6 nominations), on the fate of pianist Glenn Gould, Big Mother (5), a journalistic thriller, Persian dolls (4), a drama set in the midst of the Iranian Revolution and When the child appears (4), a comedy by Michel Fau with Catherine Frot nominated for the Molière for best private actress. Three plays by director Johanna Boyer alone won seven nominations, including five for I don’t run, I fly!.