Le Sabre de mon père

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Le Sabre de mon père (my father's sabre) is a surrealist play by Roger Vitrac which premiered at Théâtre de Paris in 1951. Initially the play was unsuccessful and reception among critics was negative. The play disappointed many critics^[who?] even among the most receptive to that surrealism. The title was not explicit enough for some^[who?] of them.

Original cast[]

• Mise-en-scène : Pierre Dux
• Settings : Félix Labisse
• Costumes : Rosine Delamare
• Roles and interpreters :
  • Françoise Dujardin : Sophie Desmarets
  • Édouard Dujardin : Pierre Dux
  • Pierre Martignac : Max Palenc
  • Adélaïde Poinsot :
  • Boussu : Noël Roquevert
  • Albert Feuillade :
  • Docteur Laborderie : Charles Dechamps
  • Nini : Anne Vitrac
  • Clémence : Luce Clament
  • Simon :
  • Flore Médard : Marcelle Arnold
  • Diane Condé : Geneviève Berney
  • Popaul :
  • Isabelle Laborderie : Janine Liezer
  • Pierril: René Génin

Critics[]

The play, however^{[editorializing]}, was defended by Jean Anouilh : "We are some in the art who have been working since the last war to strangle the anecdote, to kill the idea of a good play that ruled the French theater [...] to the point of reducing it to the status of a mummy. [...] The play is good, no? Well, no. Neither Colombe nor Le Sabre are good plays. But if the actors play "like gods", it's because they have characters otherwise they don't play well. [...] And then, let architecture to the construction specialists. The theater is a game of the mind and mind may well make honey in foraging in detail, like a bee." This critic echoes Robert Kemp's article : "That Sabre, good in details and which, taken line by line, do not lack of taste but is on the whole after all insignificant ... "

External links[]

• Henri Béhar, "Vitrac, théâtre ouvert sur le rêve" (in French)

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