The Parisian theatre company is on a rare visit to the UK with Ivo van Hove's The Damned. What are the secrets of the world's oldest active troupe? Companies like nothing more than to refer to themselves, unironically, as families. The actors of Paris's Comédie-Française have a better claim than most, however: for starters, directors keep casting them as fratricidal dynasties. Just this season, the oldest active …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM on June 17, 2019