Slipping from melancholy to humour, with "Heureux les heureux" ("Happy Are the Happy") Yasmina Reza creates a modern group of characters facing an emotional impasse. Alone on stage, Carole Bouquet portrays women and men struggling with a reality which is escaping them and dreams which are collapsing.Thursday 8 November 2018, at 8.30 pm, Théâtre Princesse Grace
Extracts from Yasmina REZA's novel
The play. "I began to experience a feeling, I want to say a truth, at that moment. As I left the car, at Wandermines, in the rain. The influence of places on the affect is not talked about enough. Some feelings of nostalgia rise to the surface without warning. People change their natures, just like in stories. In the midst of this brotherhood in their Sunday best, flocking towards the town hall to escape the drops, taking Odile's arm to help her on the slippery square, I experienced the disaster of the feeling."
Published by Flammarion in 2013, Yasmina Reza's novel was awarded the Le Monde French Literature Prize that same year.
Press…
" Yasmina Reza has created a kind of human comedy in the style of Balzac, where friendship, love, success, power, family relationships, addiction and disease are scrutinised with her sparse, funny, caustic and predatory prose. 'Emotions are murderers. I wanted life to continue and for everything to be gradually erased,' says one of the protagonists. As an accomplished writer for the theatre, in this novel which could also be a series of brilliant monologues for the stage, Yasmina Reza manages to excel in describing unspeakable - even unthinkable - quagmires and labyrinths for everyone. She can conjure emotions and even here reveal to us those beyond suspicion and the unsuspected. The inconsolable. Fabienne Pascaud, TÉLÉRAMA
"In "Heureux les heureux", a stunning novel, the playwright depicts scenes of marital life with a rare violence. Yasmina Reza at her impressive best!" LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR