The 31st Molières ceremony, which will be awarded to the Folies Bergères on May 13, will be presented by Belgian comedian Alex Vizorek.

Belgian comedian Alex Vizorek will be the master of ceremonies at the 31st Molières ceremony, where the most prestigious French theater awards will be awarded in May, with pieces from the private sector garnering several nominations.

The Molières 2019 will be held on May 13 at the Folies Bergère in Paris and will be broadcast on France 2 on a delayed basis. The channel will broadcast before a new fiction on Molière and later a recording of the Peter Stein version of Tartuffe with Pierre Arditi and Jacques Weber.

And the named ones are ....

The category of the best stage director is equal for this 2019 edition, in the public and the private sector, with four men and four women in the running (Melodie Mourey for The Crazy Toads , Charlotte Rondelez for La Ménagerie de verre , Pauline Office for My Heart and Mathilda May for The Banquet ).

In the public theater, Christophe Honoré's Idols on a generation of artists mowed by AIDS is competing for the Molière of the best play opposite Shakespeare's Night of the Kings , with a very crazy staging of the German Thomas Ostermeier (four nominations).

Denis Podalydès, named best comedian in The night of the Kings, will be opposed to Mathieu Amalric in The Collection of Harold Pinter directed by Ludovic Lagarde.

In the category of best public director , Ostermeier faces Quebecer Robert Lepage, whose play Kanata - Episode 1 - The controversy over the natives of Canada has been much in the news. Kean , a play by Jean-Paul Sartre on a beloved 19th century Shakespearean comedian directed by Alain Sachs (four nominations), and Le Banquet (three nominations) are in a good position as well.

In the private sector, Le duck à l'orange, William Douglas Home's famous boulevard on a fickle and cuckold husband, brought back by Nicolas Briançon, won seven nominations, including the Molière de la comédie, the best director and the best actor and actress. The Turing machine , which broke the German Enigma's secret code during the Second World War, is named in four categories, including the best actor for Benoît Solès, who has been hailed for his interpretation of the British mathematician. Finally The tasting (four nominations), a romantic comedy about a divorced grubby prisoner of his cellar (Bernard Campan) who meets a woman who seeks the great love and enrolls in a tasting workshop.