MINETTI
Thomas Bernhard / Matthieu Cruciani / Josse de Pauw
SCÈNES D’EUROPE
Show premiered on 8 October 2026 at the Comédie de Colmar, CDN Grand Est Alsace
As a snowstorm blankets the Belgian coast in a white blanket, the guests of a grand hotel in Ostend prepare to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Amidst the New Year’s bustle, a man walks in with his suitcase. His name is Minetti. He was once famous, the greatest of actors. But nobody recognises him anymore. He has come to meet a theatre director. He wants to perform King Lear – the role of his life – one last time.
Minetti waits. Time passes. And he reminisces about his past lives, chatting with those witnessing his wait… But in the lobby of this magnificent hotel, he is not the only one waiting: a young woman on a sofa, a fiancé at the bar, a pianist, a doorman watching the snow fall… Everyone is waiting for midnight… Everyone is waiting for something…
A famous play by the German writer Thomas Bernhard, Minetti is a wonderful tale of the passing of time, memory and ghosts, where the poignant and the grandiose, the tragic and the comic constantly rub shoulders. With his staging that gives pride of place to music and operatic singing, Matthieu Cruciani transcends the German playwright’s writing to draw out all its sensitivity.
Calendar
Tarifs
- Plein tarif 31 €
- 65ans+/Carte prof/Groupe10+ 26 €
- -30ans/Pro/Dem.d'emploi 13 €
- Groupe scolaire 8 €
- -15ans 7 €
- Etudiants Conservatoires Art de la parole 5 €
Distributions
Starring Josse de Pauw, Jeanne Bleuse, Élise Caron, Matthieu Bousquet, Lucile Roche, Pauline Rousseau
Text by Thomas Bernhard
Directed by Matthieu Cruciani
Set design by Alban Ho Van
Lighting design by Kelig Le Bars
Sound by Hugo Hamman
Costumes and masks by Caroline Tavernier
Musical dramaturgy, assistant director: Solène Souriau
Set construction: Ateliers du Théâtre de Liège
Production Théâtre de la Cité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie
Commissioned by Comédie de Colmar – CDN Grand Est Alsace
Co-production Théâtre de Liège, DC&J Création, Théâtre de Cornouaille (National Theatre, Quimper), La Filature (National Theatre, Mulhouse), Le Manège Maubeuge (Cross-border National Theatre), Théâtre de l’Union (CDN Limousin)
Support: Integration Fund of the tnba School, CDN Bordeaux Aquitaine, funded by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and the DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine; Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and Inver Tax Shelter
The text is published by L’Arche Éditeur
