Hervé Briaux paints a personal, nuanced portrait of Montaigne in the Essais. By lending his voice to Montaigne, he recreates a living presence, alternately ironic, benevolent and critical, always free to doubt and contradict.
"Know thyself", said Socrates. His disciple, Montaigne, took this injunction literally and spent his entire existence on it, in order to better understand himself and to encourage us, his readers, to try our hand at the adventure. What interests him most is the concrete diversity of what makes up humanity as it is, in its flaws, in its desires, in its follies unpredictable or not, from one end of history to the other and regardless of borders. After retiring from public affairs, Montaigne spent the last twenty years of his life inviting the world, the whole world, indeed the whole universe, into his library, in order to measure himself as accurately as possible against this immensity.
Distribution :
Production : Sea Art
By and with : Hervé Briaux
Stage direction, set design and costumes: Chantal de La Coste
Lighting: Morgane Rousseau
Sound design: Nicolas Daussy
Distribution :
Production : Sea Art
By and with : Hervé Briaux
Stage direction, set design and costumes: Chantal de La Coste
Lighting: Morgane Rousseau
Sound design: Nicolas Daussy
