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Pyrame and Thisbé have been in love for a long time, despite Thisbé’s mother’s watch, despite Narbal’s jealousy (Pyrame’s father), and finally despite the king’s jealousy, who plan to have the young man murdered.
Guided by love, the young couple decides to run away and to meet at night outside the town, near Ninus’s grave, upon which grows a mulberry tree whose fruits, in that time, were white. When Thisbé arrives, she’s threatened by a hungry lion. She runs to take shelter in a nearby cave, but in her flight she leaves behind her her scarf, immediately torn to pieces by the lion. When Pyrame gets there and sees that, he thinks his beloved is dead and decide to stab himself at the foot of the mulberry tree.
Mastering her fear, Thisbé goes back to the meeting spot et discovers her lover, dead. She takes the dagger and kills herself. The lovers’ blood flows at the foot of the tree and, since this tragic event, the fruits have become dark and their juice purple…
By the beauty of its language, its dramatic construction and the variety of the scenes, Théophile de Viau’s Pyrame and Thisbé can really be considered as the French Romeo and Juliet. The director Benjamin Lazar, great connoisseur of the 17th century theater, reveals all the tragic poetry of this work with a characteristic elegance.
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