Paris (France) (AFP) – Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Robert Guédiguian's favorite actor, and Christine Murillo, ex-member of the Comédie-Française, are reunited for the first time on the bill for "Dans le corridor", a new play by the playwright Jean-Claude Grumberg, a tragicomic behind closed doors on parenthood and old age.
Published on: 02/11/2026 - 2:37 p.m.
On the stage of the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris until April 19 before a tour, a couple of octogenarians, faced with the vicissitudes of age, talk about their fifty-year-old son who has returned to live with them.
A return that shakes up their daily lives, especially since the son, battered by life, persists in not speaking to them. This piece with biting, funny and moving dialogues offers Christine Murillo and Jean-Pierre Darroussin the opportunity for a virtuoso duet.
“This text has a very strong humanity. I really wanted to defend the voice of Jean-Claude Grumberg and to bring his speech to bear on this kind of state of the world and the relationships between parents and children,” the actor confides to AFP.
“We are always a little out of step with what we leave behind, the generations after us, in our time which is much more focused on the competition of individuals against each other,” adds Mr. Darroussin, also one of the main actors in the successful series “The Office of Legends”.
"+In the Corridor+ is not a play that you dominate. You have to tame it and that's pleasant", underlines the actor, who chooses his roles in the theater precisely on their ability to "offer him an infinity of possibilities and nuances in each performance".
Jean-Claude Grumberg, prolific playwright, regular at Molières and winner of the Grand Prix du théâtre de l'Académie française in 1991 for "Free Zone", says he "strives to make his contemporaries laugh" about their misfortunes and his own.
The duo of actors offers the public “an abundant harvest of laughter wet with tears”, he believes.
In the cinema, after "La Magpie thief" in 2024, Jean-Pierre Darroussin will be back at the end of the year in a new film by Robert Guédiguian, "Une Femme d'histoire". In April, the actor will be appearing in “Mauvaise pioche”, a comedy by Gérard Jugnot with Thierry Lhermitte and Philippe Lacheau.
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