Philippe Adrien

The second, La Grande Nouvelle, is a contemporary variation on Le Malade imaginaire, which plays on the ironies of the present-day desire for immortality.

[citation needed] In Une Visite, adapted from Franz Kafka's L'Amerique, Adrien's direction showed screwball comedic and jubilatory elements.

He worked with the same troupe to produce Jean-Claude Grumberg's Maman revient, pauvre orphelin, Véronique Olmi's Point à la ligne, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's L'Incorruptible, Molière's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Werner Schwab's Extermination du peuple, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and Genet's Les Bonnes.

He went on to direct Philippe Auger's Mélédouman and Le Projet Conrad, an adaptation of the short story Un Avant-poste du progrès.

Adrien's interest in African works continued with Boesman et Lena, by the South-African playwright Athol Fugard in 2014 and a stage production of Amos Tutuola's novel L'Ivrogne dans la brousse.

Together, they produced Molière's The Imaginary Invalid, Franz Kafka's The Trial, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, and Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs.

[14] The production received four nominations at the Molière Awards, toured for three years, and had a revival during the 2014 summer season at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin.

[17][18] Adrien has staged Chekov's La Mouette and Ivanov, Claudel's Partage de midi and Protée and Molière's L'École des femmes.