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Ruy Blas (French pronunciation: [ʁɥi blɑ]) is a tragic drama by Victor Hugo. It was the first play presented at the Théâtre de la Renaissance and opened on November 8, 1838. Though considered by many to be Hugo’s best drama, the play was initially met with only average success.
Oct 27, 2002 · Ruy Blas: Directed by Jacques Weber. With Carole Bouquet, Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Xavier Gallais. Madrid, 1699, during the reign of Charles II. Blas, a hired commoner, dares to love the queen. The plot centers on Bazan's prank on Queen Maria Neuburg in revenge for the fact that she despised him.
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- Jacques Weber
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Based on Victor Hugo's play about mistaken identity, love and revenge in the 17th-century Spanish court.
- Drama
- Carole Bouquet
- Jacques Weber
A 1971 movie, La folie des grandeurs, directed by Gérard Oury, adapted by Danièle Thomson, and starring Alice Sapritch, Louis de Funès and Yves Montand, is also based on the play. [11] It also formed the basis for a 2002 telefilm by Jacques Weber, again called Ruy Blas.
Nov 17, 2023 · Jacques Weber's staging of Ruy Blas navigates the right choices: the casting, the blend of eras, and the text that speaks for itself. Spending two hours immersed in traditional French theatre is also the audience's choice—a choice made for the sake of art.
The plot was based on Victor Hugo's five act verse play Ruy Blas that was first performed on November 8, 1838 at the opening of the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. In brief, a Spanish grandee, Don Sallust, exiled by the Queen, plots revenge by getting his servant, Ruy Blas, to impersonate an aristocrat, Don Cesar, in order to gain the ...
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Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
