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Théatre des arcades de Buc - ‘Cinderella’ by Joël Pommerat
Saturday 29 March 2025
Location : Théâtre des Arcades
FICHE_INFO_SIMPLE_LIBELLE_DESTINATION
6 rue des Frères Robin
78530
Buc
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 48.774862
Longitude : 2.126637
By car :
7 Rue des Frères Robin or 1 Rue de l'Égalité
By bus :
6161: departure from Versailles Château Rive Gauche stop "ville"
6162 : departure Versailles Château Rive Gauche stop "ville"
6163 : Versailles Rive Gauche station or St Remy en Chevreuse station stop "ville"
6164 : departure from Gare des Chantiers or Vélizy 2 or Jouy-en-Josas station stop "ville"
6173 : passing through Jouy en Josas, Jouy les loges, departure from Versailles Château Rive Gauche stop "ville"
6180 : departure from Montreuil station stop "ville"
6182 : Departure from Versailles Château Rive Gauche station stop "ville"
7 Rue des Frères Robin or 1 Rue de l'Égalité
By bus :
6161: departure from Versailles Château Rive Gauche stop "ville"
6162 : departure Versailles Château Rive Gauche stop "ville"
6163 : Versailles Rive Gauche station or St Remy en Chevreuse station stop "ville"
6164 : departure from Gare des Chantiers or Vélizy 2 or Jouy-en-Josas station stop "ville"
6173 : passing through Jouy en Josas, Jouy les loges, departure from Versailles Château Rive Gauche stop "ville"
6180 : departure from Montreuil station stop "ville"
6182 : Departure from Versailles Château Rive Gauche station stop "ville"
Event Organizer
Mairie de Buc
Location
Théâtre des Arcades
6 rue des Frères Robin
78530
Buc
Presentation
Everyone seems to know the story of Cinderella, because fairy tales have been part of our imagination for a very long time. But which version do we know?
Joël Pommerat freely and unashamedly revisits the fairy tale of the Grimm brothers and Charles Perrault with a magical version of Cinderella.
This is a far cry from the sanitised world of Disney . Let's start with a brief overview of the play: a little girl loses her mum and has to learn to live, with her father, in a new environment where she doesn't seem accepted. The image of the wicked stepmother hangs over the family tragedy, and Cinderella suffers a little more every day: relegated to a squalid room, a sort of vault, she seems trapped by her grief. Little by little, Sandra becomes Cinderella...
Pommerat uses material from several fairy tales and in particular constructs a modern image of the ‘wicked stepmother jealous of the past’.
All the ingredients of the initiation ritual are there: fear, separation, humiliation, the search for love. The cruelty of the tale is laid bare, unvarnished.
This is not Joël Pommerat's first adaptation of childhood tales.
Both his Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio have revolutionised the theatrical approach, giving them a fresh reading without denying their historical roots.
This is a far cry from the sanitised world of Disney . Let's start with a brief overview of the play: a little girl loses her mum and has to learn to live, with her father, in a new environment where she doesn't seem accepted. The image of the wicked stepmother hangs over the family tragedy, and Cinderella suffers a little more every day: relegated to a squalid room, a sort of vault, she seems trapped by her grief. Little by little, Sandra becomes Cinderella...
Pommerat uses material from several fairy tales and in particular constructs a modern image of the ‘wicked stepmother jealous of the past’.
All the ingredients of the initiation ritual are there: fear, separation, humiliation, the search for love. The cruelty of the tale is laid bare, unvarnished.
This is not Joël Pommerat's first adaptation of childhood tales.
Both his Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio have revolutionised the theatrical approach, giving them a fresh reading without denying their historical roots.
