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Trois Ruptures — images projetées sur le plateau
FOUR PRODUCTIONS · 2009 → 2026
Trois Ruptures — the images projected on stage

With Marianne Badrichani

theatre · London
Roles
Video & sound design · sound design
With
Marianne Badrichani — French-British stage director
Productions
Blue Beard · Trois Ruptures · Dinner at the Smith’s
Venues
London — Brompton Cemetery, Coronet, Riverside Studios · Paris · Beijing
Marianne Badrichani
Marianne Badrichani
A French-British stage director, writer and producer based in London, Marianne Badrichani trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and worked alongside Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre Studio. Since 2000, she has directed from the Off-West End to the most unusual venues — Brompton Cemetery, Holland Park, a railway station.
Resident artist of the Cross Channel Theatre Group at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni (2014–2016), co-founder of the Gallic Gang company with actress Edith Vernes, she was made Chevalière des Arts et des Lettres in 2025. Pierre-Alain Giraud took part in the creation of four of her productions — stage videos, sound design and writing.
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Blue Beard
Promenade theatre · Brompton Cemetery, London · 2009
Video & sound design — Pierre-Alain Giraud
Blue Beard — Brompton Cemetery
Blue Beard
Based on Charles Perrault’s tale, “by Marianne Badrichani and the company”: a gothic fairytale performed at dusk among the graves of Brompton Cemetery, as part of the Franco-British season Paris Calling and the Earls Court Festival (June 25–28, 2009). The discovery of Bluebeard’s wives came through video projection.
“Stage a gothic fairytale about a wife-killer in an atmospheric London graveyard… and you know you’re onto a memorable theatre experience.”
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Trois Ruptures
Theatre · by Rémi De Vos · 2015–2016
Video & sound design — Pierre-Alain Giraud
Trois Ruptures
© Sonia Fitoussi
Three break-ups, three tightly drawn duos — Rémi De Vos’s dark comedy, with Edith Vernes and Chris Campbell. Selected by the Cross Channel Theatre Group, the production premiered at the Chelsea Theatre in 2015, played at the Nine Theatre in Beijing as part of the Croisements festival (May 2015), then returned in French with surtitles at the Print Room at the Coronet (November 2016).
“…the fragmented film sections which drew attention to perspective and voyeurism.”
Also: Daily Mail (“Unusual and fanciful”) · The Coronet Theatre — the production page ↗
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Ionesco / Dinner at the Smith’s
Bilingual immersive experience · London & Paris · 2017–2018
Revival: Riverside Studios, London · April–May 2026
Sound design — Pierre-Alain Giraud
Ionesco / Dinner at the Smith’s
At the Smiths’ table
A dinner at the Smiths’ where the spectators are the guests: an immersive, bilingual journey through the world of Eugène Ionesco — The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, Jack, or The Submission — adapted by Edith Vernes and Marianne Badrichani. Created at the Latvian House in London (March–April 2017), performed at Les Grands Voisins in Paris, the production returns to the Riverside Studios, London, from April 7 to May 9, 2026.
“Marianne Badrichani has created a world of genius and beautiful folly… surreal, erotic and profoundly absurd, leaving us baffled, bewitched and, in some cases, breathless with laughter.”
“Unmissable. Funny, clever, exhilarating theatre.”
Also: Broadway World UK (“A splendid production”, ★★★★) · Exeunt (★★★★) · Riverside Studios — the 2026 revival ↗
Videos
Ionesco / Dinner at the Smith’s — trailer (Nathalie Berrebi)