Théâtre & littérature

Theater

Ont été regroupés sous cette rubrique toutes les œuvres de Marcel Pagnol. On y retrouvera les romans, les nouvelles et les "Sermons de Marcel Pagnol" amicalement tirés de son œuvre et rassemblés par son ami le Révérend Père Norbert Calmels.

Marcel Pagnol romancier, dramaturge, essayiste.
Marcel Pagnol romancier, dramaturge, essayiste.
'Judas' is a play in five acts.

Theater

Judas (1955)

In his play "JUDAS", Pagnol delivers a personal version of this story, which he considers as a mystery.

The ultimate adaptation of Giono by Pagnol.

Theater

“The Baker’s Wife” play (1938)

The baker's wife ran away with a shepherd. The baker gets drunk and stops making bread. Everyone in the village - including the legendary enemies, the schoolteacher and the priest - unite to find the baker's wife.

Since Marius left, César has become increasingly irritable, and his friends bear the brunt of it. When Fanny learns that she is expecting a child from Marius, dishonor looms over her...

Theater

Fanny (1931)

Two years after Marius, Pagnol took up his characters in Fanny (1931) where he had left them. Audiences at the Théâtre de Paris enthusiastically found Fanny, César, Panisse, Escartefigue, Monsieur Brun and Honorine.

Marius, the son of César and owner of the Marine bar, is torn between his love for Fanny and his desire to go to sea, to travel the world...

Theater

Marius (1929)

When Marcel Pagnol, in 1929, had Marius performed on a Parisian stage, he probably did not suspect that his characters would become as famous as Harpagon or Monsieur Jourdain.

Topaze, created in 1928, is Pagnol's first theatrical success.

Theater

Topaz (1928)

A modest teacher, honest, naive and scorned, finds himself hired by a crooked city councilman who wants to use him as a front...

Blaise tries in vain to live his youth.

Theater

Jazz (1926)

Blaise is a true scholar who devoted the best years of his life to a work he believed to be important, then discovers too late the vanity of his work...

Satirical play in five acts. In collaboration with Paul Nivoix.

Theater

The Merchants of Glory (1925)

Edouard Bachelet, a modest civil servant in a provincial prefecture, uses the glory of his son who died in the war, the hero of Verdun, to fulfill the hopes of his youth.

Catullus, a young Latin poet, passionately loves Clodia, a courtesan. She falls in love with him, but being fickle and frivolous, she cheats on him.

Theater

Catulle (1922)

Catullus, a young Latin poet, loves Clodia, a courtesan, passionately. She falls in love with him but, light and frivolous, she deceives him.