Infidèles : Promenades (Noëlle Renaude) and Le Système Ribadier (Georges Feydeau), 2016
Two perspectives on the classic French theme of infidelity: Renaude’s sparse, wry unravelling of conflict and complication is juxtaposed with Feydeau’s frenetic vaudeville business of cover-up and disclosure.
Promenades (Noëlle Renaude) follows the fall (and rise?) of Parisian businessman Bob, from a life of extramarital escapades to solitude and a mysterious beyond. Le Système Ribadier sees Eugène Ribadier's serial infidelity, enabled by the system of hypnotism he uses on his wife Angèle, uncovered by a lovelorn Aristide Thommereux with farcical consequences involving Ribadier's lover's cuckold Savinet.
Promenades (Noëlle Renaude)
Promenades / Cast -
Le narrateur – Dani Limon
Bob – Victor Sage
Pat – Adriana Capadose
Jim – Jonathan Hendry
Passants – Lucile Soudier, Claudine Tourniaire, Victoria Webb, Jess Slater, Cecilia Bromley-Martin
Marie-Claire – Amy Jayne Conley
Une passante – Victoria Webb
Tom – Jack Waterman
Bess – Claudine Tourniaire
Matt – Lucile Soudier
Les Claude – Cecilia Bromley-Martin, Jess Slater
L’aïeule – Francesca Montemagno, Claudine Tourniaire
Les gros – Chiara De Sico, Orla Condra, Ewa Garbarz, Victoria Webb
Le couple âgé – Jess Slater, Cecilia Bromley-Martin
Le Système Ribadier (Georges Feydeau)
Le Système Ribadier / Cast -
Sophie (la bonne) - Lucile Soudier
Gusman (le cocher) - Keith Bradley
Eugene Ribadier - Chris Rose
Angele Ribadier - Claire Cuminatto
Aristide Thommereux - Roger Baines
Savinet - Stefano Pollard
Musicians – The Red Herrings
Direction and set design – Ralph Yarrow
Lighting design – Ralph Yarrow, Emily Wylie
Lighting operator – Emily Wylie
Poster – Ross Ranger
Programme and synopses – Roger Baines, Claire Cuminatto, Claudine Tourniaire
Costumes – Anne Giles (Sewell Barn), Adriana Capadose
Stage management and props – Florence Oates, Theo Smith
Technical assistance – Chad Mason, Emily Wylie
Front of house – Simbi Anzaya, Kelsey Frick, Jennifer Karlsson, Isabel Morgan, Penny Newman, Eliza Piano, Bénédicte Rebouillat, Maximilian Szyc
Filming – Matthew Barwick
Photography – Ilse Renaudie
Production manager – Claudine Tourniaire
