The Misanthrope by Molière

Comédie-Française is accessible by:
Metro: Line 1 (Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre station), Line 14 (Pyramides)
Address: 1 place Colette, 75001 Paris
In case of difficulty, our hotline can be reached during our business hours. Please see the footer of this page for our contact details.

As part of the Vigipirate Plan, we would like to inform you that personal belongings will be systematically checked. We therefore ask you to arrive at La Comédie-Française as early as possible to avoid any inconvenience caused by late arrival and the checking of your items.

We recommend that you arrive at least 30 minutes before the start of The Misanthrope. Show your ticket at reception and the staff of La Comédie-Française will take care of you.

The theatre piece The Misanthrope at the Comédie-Française lasts approximately 3 hours, with intermission.

For both! La Comédie-Française welcomes audiences from all over the world. The play The Misanthrope is performed in French with surtitles in English, French and French Sign Language. Smart, connected glasses are used to view the surtitles. This technology was developed by Panthea and Theatre in Paris!

The depth of the themes explored and the richness of the language in this play calls for a mature audience to fully appreciate all the subtleties and implications.

The Comédie-Française has teamed up with Theatre in Paris' sister company, Panthea, to provide smart glasses for surtitling! A visionary breakthrough!
How do smart glasses for surtitling work? These smart glasses include a new technology developed by Panthea that enables surtitles to be shown in an individual spectator’s view, within the glasses, during a live performance. In addition to the surtitles, these Augmented Reality glasses can also be connected to a headset for Audio Description as well as display a video with sign language depending on the show. These features not only make performances accessible to a wider audience but also allow for audience members to have a personalized experience in a way that suits them best.

The theatre piece The Misanthrope will be performed in French with surtitles in English, French and French Sign Language via Panthea’s smart glasses.
*Surtitles (also called supertitles) are the theatre equivalent of subtitles. Funfact: In French “sur” means “above”.

When purchasing tickets for The Misanthrope, choose your preferred category and you will be allocated the best available seats in that category!

Please note that tickets of the same category that are booked during the same purchase session, in the same booking order on our website are always assigned side by side. To be sure of this, make sure all of your tickets are in the same category and are included in your shopping cart at the time of purchase.
If there are no available adjacent seating arrangements, our customer service team will contact you before the booking is confirmed.

You can find the seating plan in the theatre’s "photo" section on this page.

There is no specific dress code at La Comédie-Française, but proper attire is appreciated. Many Parisians will arrive directly from work, dressed in business casual or chic attire.

The Comédie-Française has a bar which is open 1 hour before the performance and during the intermission. The bar is not open after the performance.

Comédie-Française plays are always in great demand. We therefore recommend that you book tickets in advance rather than waiting, as dates tend to fill up very quickly.