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Théatre Montansier - If Music Be the Food of love
From Monday 08 to Tuesday 09 December 2025
20:30 to 21:45
Location : Théâtre Montansier
Destination
13 Rue des Réservoirs
78000
Versailles
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 48.808028
Longitude : 2.124396
Event Organizer
Théâtre Montansier
Location
Théâtre Montansier
13 Rue des Réservoirs
78000
Versailles
Presentation
Discover a poetic and musical show based on Shakespearean texts, spoken or sung, accompanied by the accordion and electro-acoustic music.
A selection of 30 sonnets by Shakespeare, the author's iconic and intimate work, first published in 1609. They are interpreted in the translation by Jean-Michel Déprats, according to whom the Sonnets are meant to be spoken and heard: "It is the same Shakespeare who wrote Hamlet and the Sonnets. A rhythm carries and sustains the poems and the plays, in which we hear and recognize the same voice. To put it plainly, Shakespeare's Sonnets are therefore texts to be spoken, as much as texts to be read."
The themes addressed in the Sonnets encompass the grandeur of love, passion, jealousy, doubt, prohibition, the poetic power of language, the flight of youth, the inexorable march toward decline and death, wealth and poverty, power and servitude, war and tyranny, injustice... there is even a question of the mutability of the cosmos (the destruction of nature by man). We are at the heart of the broadest expression of the English poet, more than ever a visionary of our contemporary world. This poetic and theatrical journey is also punctuated by an anthology of songs selected from many of Shakespeare's plays (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline) and set to music by great composers: Dowland, Haydn, Schubert, Poulenc, or others more unexpected like Ambroise Thomas, Roger Quilter, Gérald Finzi, Percy Grainger...
The themes addressed in the Sonnets encompass the grandeur of love, passion, jealousy, doubt, prohibition, the poetic power of language, the flight of youth, the inexorable march toward decline and death, wealth and poverty, power and servitude, war and tyranny, injustice... there is even a question of the mutability of the cosmos (the destruction of nature by man). We are at the heart of the broadest expression of the English poet, more than ever a visionary of our contemporary world. This poetic and theatrical journey is also punctuated by an anthology of songs selected from many of Shakespeare's plays (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline) and set to music by great composers: Dowland, Haydn, Schubert, Poulenc, or others more unexpected like Ambroise Thomas, Roger Quilter, Gérald Finzi, Percy Grainger...
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Bookings open to the general public on Tuesday 2 September 2025 by internet, telephone or at the ticket office.
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