Les Amants Terribles

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

Around them revolve mythical figures such as Édith Piaf, Coco Chanel, or Mila Parély, witnesses and sometimes participants in this extraordinary human and artistic journey. It is in this permanent tension that one of the greatest masterpieces of French cinema will be born: Beauty and the Beast.

Les Amants Terribles takes an unprecedented look at two legends of the XXth century, exploring their intimacy as much as the contradictions of an era where love, art, and political choices collided.

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