Description:

"My friend Serge bought a painting [...] a white painting with white borders." A dermatologist, Serge loves modern art and Seneca, whom he finds "extremely modern." An aeronautical engineer, Marc has more traditional tastes and doesn't understand how his friend Marc could have bought "this crap for two hundred thousand francs." As for Yvan, a salesman in a stationery store, he would like to avoid upsetting either of his two precious friends. But the aesthetic disputes surrounding the "white painting" degenerate into a hilarious and ferocious crescendo, which will leave no one unscathed... Created in 1994 in Paris, with an impeccable cast (Vaneck, Luchini, Arditi), "Art" made Yasmina Reza famous on stages all over the world. This shows the universality of the theme, the humanity of the characters and the virtuosity of the dialogues which already make this play a classic comedy of manners. As with Molière or Labiche, Feydeau or Ribes, students will discover that the "taste for others" remains the most effective of dramatic devices, and how much the most extravagant fantasy can reveal existential angst.