At the microphone of Philippe Vandel, the actress and actress Sylvie Testud returns on her new role in the theater. From Thursday, she will play the main role of L'Heureux stratagème, piece Marivaux, created in 1733. In this piece, she plays a countess, a feminist before the hour, who does not hesitate to deceive her husband.

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After an increased presence at the cinema this year, Sylvie Testud returns to the theater. She plays the lead role in Marivaux's L'Heureux stratagème , presented at the Edouard VII theater from Thursday. At the microphone of Philippe Vandel, in Culture Media, she explains how this piece, created in 1733, is distinguished by its modernity, at the time of social networks and dating applications.

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"My character, the countess, must marry Dorante, but in the end she is attracted to the knight, who has to marry the marchioness," says Sylvie Testud. "The Marquise and Dorante decide then to set up a scheme so that the Countess falls in love with the man with whom she had to get married."

A countess with masculine behavior

In this work, infidelity is therefore at the heart of the plot. And in this respect, the Countess, with her strong character, does not hesitate to cross the red line. "She wants to cheat on her boyfriend but she does not want him to leave her, but she still wants him to be in love with her," says the actress, who describes a character of "very bad faith" who wants to shine ". "She behaves just like the gentlemen she does not care about," she adds.

Sylvie Testud goes further, portraying a "feminist" heroine. "The countess says at the beginning of the play: 'Do men do as many ways as we do to leave a woman, do they have privileges in this respect?'"

A play on infidelity and seduction

The actress then draws many parallels between current love relationships and those of the eighteenth century. Among these links between past and present, she cites "the desire to please, the impression that you are worth more when people look at you, when you are desired by its charm by its sexy side".

"I wanted to prove my value by trying to flirt with this knight I have nothing to shake," summarizes Sylvie Testud borrowing the voice of the countess. This behavior evokes, without hesitation, the new love codes of our time. "In the age of social networks, we do not want to please one, two, three, but a million followers," she says.