Madeleine Béjart, une femme libre: A Play at Lucernaire

The play "Madeleine Béjart, une femme libre" (Madeleine Béjart, a free woman), a 2025 creation from the Avignon Off Festival, is now being performed at the Lucernaire theater in Paris. Directed by Xavier Lemaire and written by Pierre-Olivier Scotto, the production stars Isabelle Andréani, known for her role in "Un cœur simple." The play recounts the final seven days of Madeleine Béjart, the first companion of Molière, who served as his mentor, muse, and companion. It is described as a fable and a poignant confession of an immense actress in an era when women were restricted. The production has received critical acclaim: France Info called it "a very beautiful play, even unmissable, at the crossroads of theater history and History with a capital H"; Web Théâtre praised Lemaire's staging as "an écrin d'intelligence" (a setting of intelligence); La Provence noted that audiences discover "an incredible woman, carried by an Isabelle Andréani at the top of her art." The play is presented as a partner event of Club Artistik Rezo.