Le bourru bienfaisant

To kick off its new season, the Théâtre du Dé presents “The Grumpy Good Samaritan,” a play by Carlo Goldoni, performed by the Compagnie du Dé.

Géronte, an old man with a good heart but an unpredictable and fundamentally grumpy temperament, decides to marry off his orphaned niece, Angélique, to his best friend Dorval, a confirmed old bachelor. However, she is secretly in love with Valère, though she doesn’t dare admit it to her uncle... Meanwhile, Angélique’s brother, who is bankrupt, wants to send her to a convent until he can pay off his debts, in order to provide her with a dowry. To do so, he tries to extort money from her uncle…

*The Gruff Benefactor*, by Carlo Goldoni, is a lighthearted comedy full of twists and turns, first performed in Paris in 1771 during the festivities surrounding the wedding of the future Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Carlo Goldoni transformed Italian comedy. He managed to preserve the dynamism of the commedia dell’arte and the use of masks by combining them with plot-driven comedy and striving for a certain realism. The characters he created are mostly ordinary representatives of the common people and the bourgeoisie. This amused and mocking view of social classes in a changing world continues to be the charm of his comedies.

Performances will take place from August 28 to September 13.

Reservations can be made online at www.lede.ch, or at the Saint-Maurice tourist office.


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