Combining solo performance with an art scene from the peripheries and the Antilles, this two day celebration centers around transdisciplinary artist Bintou Dembélé’s grassroot investigations into the concept of “marronnage”—a term historically identified with enslaved peoples’ escape from the plantation, but which has come to signify the fugitivity of the body, spirit and soul from all forms of current oppression, in order to create new societies.

This bold rewriting of Molière’s immortal satire brings the play into a modern London world of media celebrity, capturing the disappointed loves and poisonous intrigues lurking behind polite society.

Two of France’s most beloved artists come together in one spellbinding evening of language, as iconic actor Isabelle Huppert performs seven short stories by the 19th century master of the form, Guy de Maupassant.

Molière’s most successful play shines in this reenvisioning by the artists of Molière in the Park, using non-traditional casting choices—casting women in male roles and swapping genders—to deconstruct The Miser’s complex power dynamics.