Hamlet et Salomé, portraits d’artistes

This new program of tales brings together for the first time Hamlet ou les suites de la piété filiale by Jules Laforgue, drawn from his Moralités légendaires, and La Marquise de Spolète, taken from Jean Lorrain’s collection Princesses d’ivoire et d’ivresse.
The myths of Hamlet and Salome are among the most recurrent and enduring sources of inspiration for poets, storytellers, and painters of the late 19th century. They appear in the writing of Flaubert, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Huysmans, and Wilde, and in the visions of Moreau, Henner, Vrubel, and Beardsley.
In a recital steeped in decadence and baroque sonorities, Jérémie Le Louët and Théo Pombet will bring to life two of the tales most emblematic of this “fin de siècle” fever that flourished so freely in Paris between 1880 and 1900. These are tales written in an “artist’s language,” a “tightrope-walker’s” prose, and they stand among the most brilliant achievements in the rewriting of myths.
This coproduction with the Jean-Jacques Henner and Gustave Moreau National Museums is part of a long-standing collaboration that began in 2009 and has continued ever since, with the museums hosting the full range of Les Dramaticules’ staged readings.