"DINNER WITH A FOOL"
April 15
VEF Cultural Palace, 7:00 PM
An eccentric comedy
Touring theatre TEĀTR
Performance in Russian.
Producer: Igor Levins (Israel)
Director: Boris Bogdanov
Cast (international ensemble):
Pierre Brochant - Sergei Rimar (Estonia)
François Pignon - Boris Bogdanov (Estonia)
Christine Brochant, Marlène Sasseur - Yulia Yefimenko (Cyprus)
Lucien Cheval - Konstantin Tsikin (Spain)
Juste Leblanc, Doctor - Maksim Terletski (Latvia)
Duration: 2 hours with an intermission
Age limit 12 +
When a brilliant mind meets genius-level foolishness, real theatre begins.
"Dinner with a Fool" is a sparkling situational comedy in which laughter goes hand in hand with irony, while deeper themes lie beneath the apparent lightness.
A group of arrogant intellectuals holds dinners every week with a fool. Each of them brings along someone they consider the dumbest guest, just to have a good laugh. But this time, things will not go according to plan.
The main character, a self-confident publisher, finds the "perfect" candidate: a naive tax inspector who has a mad passion for making matchstick models. But this "fool" is not as simple as he seems. Instead of becoming an object of ridicule, Pignon begins to destroy Brochant's life. By a foolish chain of coincidences, the evening turns into a catastrophe, and the smug intellectual himself becomes the victim of his own plan instead of the hunter.
Full of witty dialogue and satire, Weber's comedy mocks snobbery and shows that the real foolishness is arrogance.
