28 June 2021

2021 Summer programme at La Maison Maria Casarès


This year's summer programme is as busy as usual.

But it is only for a short run, each weekday
from 26th July
until 19th August.
with a special event day on Sunday 15th August.

Included in the programme
  • afternoon tours through the site
  • kids afternoon spectacle with snacks
  • early evening performance & apéritif
  • evening theatre followed by dinner
Events are on every week-day through the festival. Best to book in advance to guarantee a place 05 45 31 81 22 resa@mmcasares.fr

Fragments d'autre

Discover the love correspondence between Maria Casarès and Albert Camus.

Equipped with headphones, you can walk at your own pace on this tour which will take you to different places in the park. At each stage, you will listen to an exchange between the two lovers which will give way to the music of Aurélien Dumont and will accompany you at each of your steps. 

A journey through the lands of Maria Casarès, to meet these two sacred giants of theatre and literature. An intimate and captivating experience.

 

To Never Meet the Last Hour

Memories of the Logis de la Vergne

Accompanied by a guide and in a group, visitors will set off to discover the history of the Logis de la Vergne (listed in the inventory of historical monuments) and particularly the journey of Maria Casarès: her life as an artist, refugee, a woman of the twentieth century. Beyond the traces left by its illustrious owner, this visit will also be an opportunity to discover the work of the visual artist, Joël Andrianomearisoa.
 
The summer 2021 will have a special flavor. This is the last summer when visitors will be able to discover the home as Maria Casarès left it: necessary renovations can wait no longer. We asked Joël Andrianomearisoa to come and intervene in these spaces and to propose installations in the Logis, to put into perspective with all his sensitivity and his poetry this issue of time passing and traces of the heritage that remain.
 

 

Come on, Ollie... in the water!

Mamie Olive, an almost helpless great-grandmother who was Olympic swimming champion at the London Olympic Games in 1948, meets her great-grandson Olivier… who is afraid of water! 

A meeting that seems to start off badly; what does this energetic little boy have in common with his great-grandmother, who is recovering from a broken hip and who, on top of everything else, is taking away his room on the pretext that she can't climb stairs? 
 
But that's without counting on Grandma Olive's tricks to help Ollie get into the water. And what if what seemed to drive them apart ended up bringing them together?
 
The show is followed by a snack served in the gardens of the estate. 



C.R.A.S.H d'après l'affaire dite de Tarnac

In 2008, an event immediately classed as a terrorist attack by the media: an ultra-left group based in Corrèze sabotaged the TGV railway. One of the biggest legal scandals of the last 20 years ensued.

If this affair has left such a mark on people's minds, it is because it was covered by the media even before the courts had time to deal with it. It has become a "pure" product of our time: a product of communication of a state policy and a product of journalists in search of sensations.

In this show, we go through the different stages of the trial of this "Affaire de Tarnac". With an acerbic humor, we will try to shine a light on the crazy situation into which the defendants and the judicial system were both dragged.

The show is accompanied by an aperitif to be enjoyed in the gardens of the estate.



Martyr

A teenager like any other, but Benjamin wreaks havoc in his school.

Overcome by a mystical crisis, his extremist ideas upset his mother, his classmates and his entire school. Only his biology professor tries to bring him to his senses by committing himself to reading scripture and challenging him point by point. Can girls wear bikinis while swimming? Do sex education classes have their place in a school? What about the theory of evolution in natural science lessons? 

Little by little, Benjamin wraps himself in his "martyr's" clothes, revealing the gaping flaws in his family, school and even the theological education systems. 

With icy humor and colorful characters, this show invites us to see the insidious web that extremism weaves amongst the young, and the difficulty in countering it.

To laugh about it, and try, perhaps, to better guard against it.


The show continues with a dinner outdoors, in the park, "L'Italie en Charente" prepared by our associate cook Romain Portelli.


Come and join us!

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