Marianne Badrichani

Marianne Badrichani (Brault-Badrichani) is a Franco-British theatre maker, director, dramatist, producer and acting coach. She is based in London.

Career

With a background in film production in Paris, she trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and began directing plays and immersive performances in London in 2000. Best known for directing new writing and her adaptations, she has worked with Katie Mitchell, the Young Vic, the National Theatre, Theatre503 and in the West End.

She is a member of the Cross Channel Theatre Group, an initiative launched by the French Institute which promotes French new writing in the UK. She was a resident artist at the French Institute in 2014–2016. In 2012, she started to direct shows in China where she took Cravate Club/Members Only by Fabrice Roger-Lacan then Trois Ruptures/Three Splits in May 2015.

In the last recent years, she has worked on a trilogy of new adaptations staging playwrights playfully discussing their work with the characters of their plays (Ionesco/Dinner at the Smiths) or with their muses (Sacha Guitry, Ma Fille et Moi). After a sell-out run in London in 2018, Sacha Guitry, Ma Fille et Moi returned to the Playground Theatre (Notting Hill, London) in January 2019. Her latest production is Je t'aime moi non plus/Texts by Moliere which has been presented to sell-out audiences in May and November 2022 in London.

Productions

As director

Je t'aime moi non plus/Texts by Molière at Institut français du Royaume-Uni and The Chelsea Theatre, Sacha Guitry, Ma Fille et Moi, Trois Ruptures/Three Splits by Rémi De Vos with Chris Campbell and Edith Vernes (Print Room, Chelsea Theatre and the Nine Theatre in Beijing), Members Only with Robert Bathurst and Nicholas Tennant (Trafalgar Studios and Oriental Palace in Beijing), The Little Black Book with Paul McGann and Susannah Harker and Three Women with Marcia Warren, Annie Firbank and Camilla Rutherford (both at Riverside Studios), The Match by Driss Ksikes at Gate Theatre for Nour Festival, Paris Calling New Writing (Royal National Theatre).

Site-specific productions and installation performances (as director and adaptor)

Ionesco/Dinner at the Smiths (Les Grands Voisins in Paris and Latvian House in London), The Eyes Have It (for Bread and Goose and Alison Neighbour, Watford), Square Bubble (National Theatre/Watch This Space), The Clock Stopped at 8.15 (Harrow with James Hadley), A Show in a Shop Window (In Transit, Kensington High St), La Peau de Chagrin (In Transit, Holland Park), Blue Beard (Brompton Cemetery), Caprice (Barkston Gds), Cyrano (Lincoln's Inn), I am a Fool to Want You (French Institute).

As translator or adaptor

The Season in the Congo for Joe Wright and the Young Vic, Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat for Katie Mitchell, Interiors for Vanishing Point (both at Theatre de la Ville, Paris).

Other work

She also teaches drama, run workshops about new writing, and is a member of the audition panel at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London City University, Westminster School and the International School of Screen Acting.

External links

• Personal Website
• **** Excellent - Multipurpose theatre that will leave you smiling, questioning and full of admiration. (Everything Theatre)
• ***** Unmissable! - Funny, sexy, clever, exhilarating theatre. (Everything Theatre)
• you're onto a memorable theatre experience... (James Hadley for the Big Idea)
• Trois Ruptures/Three Splits, The Print Room (Culture Whisper)
• Un Aide Memoire très Londonien (La Croix)
• Does England remain an island? (Entractes-SACD)
• 2011 La Peau de Chagrin Adaptation
• Sacha Guitry, the 'Gallic Noel Howard' returns to London at last (The Stage)
• (Culture whisper)
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• is already known in London’s theatre scene for her site-specific theatrical installations