The Comic Tragedy

Created in 1988, La Tragédie Comique is one of those shows that left such a mark on the history of French-language theater that it has become legendary. This show has been performed more than 1,000 times throughout the French-speaking world since its creation. A subtle face-off between man and the imagination. A scenic miracle. This original play by Eve Bonfanti and Yves Hunstad is all the more precious to discover as it is the ideal entry point into their atypical body of work. At the crossroads of Elizabethan theater and contemporary creation, La Tragédie Comique plays with representation, its procession of impostures and unveilings, its limits and its infinity. Alone on stage, Yves Hunstad, with an extraordinary mastery of the spoken word, invents a fabulous cosmic character, human, serious and fragile, who takes us, right then and there, on a journey to the heart of a great mystery: Celui du Théâtre, of the Character and his Actor. The press says: "His stagecraft is exceptional and his mastery of the spoken word is extraordinary. Aux Bouffes du Nord, he is, between pure comedy and harsh tragedy, a fabulous character in search of an actor..." LE MONDE "Sublime, no, simply sublime. Avec La Tragédie Comique, Yves Hunstad is, definitively, at the pinnacle of pure theatrical Art; Where theater takes itself as an object, as a subject, as a vital necessity. Get up and act!" LE SOIR