The servant outwits the master in 18th-century France's most scandalous wedding.
A staging of Beaumarchais's play "The Marriage of Figaro" by Christophe Rauck.
Acting
Laurent Stocker's Figaro—charming, cunning, barely contained rage.
Direction
Rauck balances bedroom farce with genuine class tension.
Writing
Beaumarchais's 1784 script still cuts deep.
Director
Don Kent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Beaumarchais wrote this as a direct attack on aristocratic privilege; Louis XVI banned it. Mozart's opera made it immortal.
This 2018 Comédie-Française production restored cuts made for 18th-century censors, including Figaro's explosive anti-noble rant.
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