Muriel Mayette-Holtz and Ella Perrier unveiled the 2023/2024 program of the Théâtre National de Nice this Monday, June 5. For this season, the TNN intends to display a true gift of ubiquity! It plans to extend well beyond the franciscans’ hall and the Kitchen hall, which have just celebrated their first anniversary.
“If you see the world in gray, push the elephant.” This Indian proverb illustrates, for the TNN director, Muriel Mayette-Holtz, the mindset of this 2023/2024 season. The TNN director is pleased that the past season was particularly successful. The Kitchen hall, despite the controversies and having altered the audience’s habits, was almost full for nearly all performances since January. Evidently, the TNN audience has evolved, becoming more diverse and especially younger.
The 2023/2024 program has taken these changes into account and is also presented as “the product of a shared appetite for the same theater,” says Muriel Mayette-Holtz. A taste for both classical theater and contemporary theater guided the choices for this program. This season will also feature the new tragedy festival and the magic festival, allowing the TNN to showcase the wide range of performing arts.
All About the Summer Program
The arenas of Cimiez, a key location near the Matisse Museum and the Archaeology Museum, becomes the jewel casing for the TNN’s summer program. In the context of launching the tragedy festival, the arenas of Cimiez allow for the creation of a unique open-air event in France. It is in this iconic location in Nice that The Overcome Prejudice by Marivaux will open the festivities on June 23. From June 29 to July 1, three unique evenings dedicated to literature will welcome a trio of committed women for the reading of powerful texts after a performance of Songs (by Bénédicte Allard and François Barucco).
On the first evening, Muriel Mayette-Holtz will present To Build a Fire by Jack London, followed by the text The Poor People by Victor Hugo. On June 30, Claire Chazal will read The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov. Finally, the last evening will revive Marilyn Monroe with a biographical reading by Catherine Ceylac.
From July 3 to August 6, the Aperitif Tales will offer a traveling journey through the Mediterranean basin at the TNN Kiosk on the green corridor. Every evening at 7 p.m., artist readings will take you on a journey from France to Spain via Greece. Saturdays will highlight the young audience with adapted readings, while Sundays will focus more on music.
Finally, the last week of August will be enlivened by the Marivaux Tour, which will take to the Maralpines roads from August 23 in Isola Village to September 1 in Colomars.
Highlights of this Program
The 2023/2024 program was an opportunity for Muriel Mayette-Holtz to stage her first opera. Guru, which will be performed on February 20, 22, and 24, 2024, represents the perfect collaboration between the Théâtre National de Nice and the orchestra of the Opéra de Nice.
In a desire for continuity and renewal, the TNN brings back artists familiar to the audience while aiming to highlight new actors. October will thus be marked by a new collaboration with Anthéa as part of ExtraPôle Sud Production, with the TNN commissioning artist Bintou Dembélé. She will present her show Groove at the Théâtre d’Antibes from Thursday, October 12 to Saturday, October 14, 2023.
In January 2024, the beautiful Laetitia Casta and the brooding Roschdy Zem will share the bill in A Special Day. Molière Award 2016 for visual creation, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort will be an unmissable event in March 2024. This brief presentation of highlights does not overshadow the rest of the program, which shines with its diversity and originality.
“Placere et docere”
“To please and to instruct,” this is the theater’s goal according to Horace, the famous Roman poet. An adage that the Théâtre National de Nice seems to clearly follow. From the start of the new school year, it will host five young apprentice actors from Cannes’ ERACM (Regional School of Actors of Cannes and Marseille). The TNN also participates in the “100% Culture” initiative, which offers every primary school student access to Culture, Art, and Heritage. Finally, it renews the educational project Letters to… with the writer Susie Morgenstern. For this fifth edition, middle school, high school, and university students are invited to write Letters to Myself Later…
Practical Information
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