The Performing Arts Festival returns for a 22e edition from July 24 to August 13 with prestigious headliners: Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Thierry Lhermitte…
Isabelle Adjani who speaks, beyond the grave, with Marilyn Monroe, Gérard Depardieu who reinterprets the songs of Barbara… The Lacoste festival, created by Pierre Cardin, will take place from July 24 in the castle of the Marquis de Sade. Every summer since 2001, the event dedicated to theatre, song, opera and musical cinema welcomes more than 15,000 spectators in the Luberon. The performances will take place in the old stone quarry of the castle acquired by the couturier, now deceased, at the end of the 1990s.
At the opening, the festival will offer an anthology of musicals brought to the big screen: Mamma Mia, hairspray, The Phantom of the Opera, flash dance. On August 6, Gérard Depardieu, accompanied by Gérard Daguerre, pianist of Barbara, will resume the great successes of the singer, a show created at the Bouffes du Nord.
Thierry Lhermitte will succeed him on August 11 with a single on stage inspired by the book in which Simon Wiesenthal recounts how he was confronted in June 1942 with a dying Nazi seeking forgiveness.
On August 13, Isabelle Adjani will close the Festival with The Vertigo Marilyna monologue in the form of a tribute to the star who died 60 years ago, in August 1962. The show mixes statements from Marilyn during her last interview, two days before her death, and Isabelle Adjani’s own confessions.