Le Cid

According to Pierre Corneille. Nothing stops Toone even not to face the formidable Cid Campeador, extraordinary character of Castilian epic poetry by which Pierre Corneille was inspired. It is in this role that the young actor José Géal passes his audition in 1951 and enters the Théâtre National de Belgique then directed by Jacques Huisman. Devenu Toone VII, he adapts the work with the complicity of Barès, in 1970. Maintenant Nicolas Géal – Toone VIII programs with enthusiasm this piece of bravery. Woltje, the ketje of Brussels, who traverses with his plain speaking all the parodic repertoire of the Toones, takes hold here of the title role. He dismisses with a "Steik! You're dead and you play no more with" the impudent who outrages his father. Woltje-Cid commits at the same time the irreparable by eliminating the begetter of the opulent Chimène who makes him chatter until his dikken tien (*). The fair one pours herself into vengeful stances to make shudder the king who looks strikingly like Leopold II, our sovereign-builder. Sequel to discover on the stage in the realistic sets and costumes of the excellent Nuno Corte-Réal. “Sire, it's annoying, there's still no government” (updated version) (*) Bibberer: to tremble, to shiver. Dikken tien: big toe "To tremble until one's big toe", that is to say to be moved.