Les amants terribles

After meeting its audience at the Funambule Montmartre and then at Les Mathurins, Les Amants Terribles continues its journey in a magnificent Parisian hall belonging to the Jean-Marc Dumontet group: La Scène Libre, starting October 8.

A story of love, creation, and freedom: Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais, the legendary couple of the twentieth century, in a play carried by three superb actors and a visual universe inspired by Jean Cocteau.

In occupied Paris, Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais live a love story as passionate as it is tormented. While one fascinates all of Paris and maintains ambiguous relations with the authorities, the other dreams of joining the Resistance. Between admiration, jealousy, creation, and heartbreak, their partnership traverses one of the most troubled eras in French history.

Around them gravitate legendary figures such as Édith Piaf, Coco Chanel, or Mila Parély, witnesses and sometimes participants in this extraordinary human and artistic adventure. It is within this permanent tension that one of the greatest masterpieces of French cinema will be born: La Belle et la Bête.

Les Amants Terribles offers a fresh look at two legends of the twentieth century, exploring their intimacy as much as the contradictions of an era where love, art, and political choices collide.

Written by Carole Giacobbi and Stéphane Vauthier, the play will be published by L'Avant-Scène Théâtre in autumn 2026.

DATES AND VENUE

La Scène Libre – Paris 10th

From October 8, 2026 to January 17, 2027

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays

CAST

DIRECTED by Carole Giacobbi

WITH Julien Honoré, Louka Meliava, Eugénie Derouand

With the support of ADAMI