Performances

The love between Bruno and Stella is so powerful and shared that it leaves everyone around them deliriously happy. But everything suddenly changes when the suspicion of infidelity worms its way into Bruno’s thoughts and he follows the dark passageways of jealousy to madness.
 
“The Magnificent Cuckold” teeters between farce and tragedy. Characters are in love and having fun one moment, wounding and being hurt the next. And we find ourselves spirited out of the initial refreshing, light-hearted, comic environment into a nightmarish place of no return, in the grip of obsessions and passions with nothing rational about them. An endless game of reductio ad absurdum... in which, ultimately, the protagonist’s real enemy is himself.
 
Born in France into a family of actors, Fernand Crommelynck wrote “The Magnificent Cuckold” in 1920. Influenced by iconic classic works and equipped with an excellent knowledge of theatrical writing and the theatrical act, he left us a lyrical and grotesque text on jealousy in its most sickening—and simultaneously comic (or ridiculous)—form.