As part of the collection initiated by France Culture and the Comédie-Française of radio adaptations of works by Simenon, we have chosen Le Chat, a novel by Georges Simenon, published in 1967, which was adapted for the cinema in 1971 by Pierre Granier-Deferre with Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret.
This book depicts a couple in their seventies, Émile and Marguerite, married for a second time, no doubt to fill their loneliness. A war has broken out between them and they no longer speak to each other, only communicate through notes on scraps of paper.
Halfway between literature and theatre, we will perform this magnificent text as moving as Le Train, which we had already created at Studio 104 with Guillaume Gallienne from the Comédie-Française.

Georges Simenon's Cat
A creation of France Culture with the Comédie-Française
As part of the cycle devoted to Georges Simenon with the troupe of the Comédie-Française
 
Adapted by Pierre Assouline
Directed by: Baptiste Guiton
Original music: Olivier Longre and Laurence Moletta

With :
Anne Kessler: Mrs. Martin
Clotilde de BayserNelly
Hervé Pierre: Emile Bouin
Christian Hecq: Narrator
Daniele Lebrun : Marguerite Bouin
 
And the voice of
Flora Chéreau, actress of the promotion 2019-2020 of the academy of the Comédie-Française: The nurse

Le Chat by Georges Simenon is published by Éditions Omnibus and Livre de Poche.
Thanks to John Simenon

Broadcast on France Culture on Sunday March 29, 2020 at 9 p.m. in Théâtre & Cie