Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" at the Comédie-Française: several mice and a single cat
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The viewer is caught up in this Mousetrap where an innocuous accessory becomes essential, a banal gesture distressing and an insignificant word heavy with consequences. Vincent PONTET / Comédie Française
To close the theater season, the Comédie-Française invites the "queen of crime" to the Vieux-Colombier. In her production, Lilo Baur revels in the codes of the old-fashioned detective novel, enhancing it with cinematic effects.
It's all there: the dark wood paneling, the leather sofa, the wood-burning stove that constantly needs to be refueled, and the massive radio connecting the home to the wider world. And, behind the doors or at the top of the stairs, what we can guess of the house without ever entering it... Finally, visible through a large bay window, the garden invaded by snow, the future setting for a few humorous silent scenes.
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