Louis Jouvet was at his time a great person of the Theatre. Director, actor but also a teacher of actors. Brigitte Jaques, took his writings and scattered, but detailed notes and made them into a theatre play that could be performed.
Jouvet Elvira, takes place in 1940 at the conservatoire where Juvet teaches the role of Dona Elvira to his student Claudia, who is Jewish. It is a monologue piece from the play DON JUAN by Moliere, where Dona Elvira, afraid for the conviction of Don Juan, she pleads him to change his life and to follow a more virtuous path so he can be saved.
Louis Jouvet constantly interrupts his student's attempts and asks for the truth. He asks his student to discover the desert inside her to be able to touch the reality of the role.
Paris 1940. The Germans have invaded Paris , and the armed forces can be heard on the streets, but teacher and student are not intimidated.
In a time when populism overflows, Nazism is close and the Europeans pretend not to see it, the catalyst physiognomy of Juvet, is searching for the truth deep in what has remained honored.
The roles . The Theatre . The stage.
Acting is the only weapon against hypocrisy.
Hitler is winning, “Elvira” excels but is driven to Ausvitch and Juvet sends himself to exile.
JOUVET ELVIRA, does not remain to the abnegation of the characters towards the miracle of theatre, while outside a World war is happening.
It becomes a bridge to cross over to the other side, the side of the stage and discover the Theatre as an arc of poetry and escape from draught everyday life. The teacher, the student but also their relationship makes us witnesses of a phenomenon-that of theatre- that reveals us its secrets with generosity.
Theatre as poetry, theatre as an overstepping with the full meaning of the word.
A fact in which man finds his meaning against all that withdraw, humiliate and trivialize him.

twenty performances only

Performances everyday except Monday and Thusday
Τετάρτη 8.00, Πέμπτη 9.00, Παρασκευή 9.00, Σαββάτο 7.00 & 9.00μμ, Κυριακή 8.00 μμ